Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vilna. Russia. Arrived with parents in U. S. in 1896. Longtime problem child of Manhattan charitable institutions. Bobbed up, his War years a blank, among the newly adrift Russian princes in Western Europe. Gulled Americans in Paris, Manhattan, Newport, Harvard, Hollywood (twice), St. Paul, Phoenix, variously as the late Tsar's brother, cousin, halfbrother, finally (in Mexico) the Tsar himself. Lived with and peacefully served Artist Rockwell Kent at Ausable Forks, N. Y. As drifts of bad checks massed behind him, he smelled out new green pastures. Exposed, he was always super-Romanoff. Last April he showed away first...
Good for one year only, the new legislation makes Minister of Commerce C. N. Hauge virtually Denmark's Tsar of Imports. Advised by 13 representatives of agriculture, commerce and industry, he will dictate the rationing of foreign exchange (through the National Bank) to Danish importers. Thus if a Dane wants to buy a German Mercedes, the Import Tsar at his discretion can block the exchange transaction and may thus switch the sale to another country, by intimating for example that he would facilitate the purchase of a British Rolls-Royce...
Divorced. Prince Alexis Mdivani, one of three Georgian brothers (others are divorced from Film Actresses Pola Negri and Mae Murray); and Princess Louise Astor Van Alen Mdivani, Manhattan socialite; at The Hague, Holland. Prince Alexis, son of the late Tsar Nicholas' aide-de-camp, lost his standing as "unofficial ambassador from Georgia" at Paris, by a new non-aggression pact signed last fortnight by France and Soviet Russia...
What he would do after March 4 the Vice President was not sure last week. He is not a rich man and not much of a $15,000 salary can be saved in Washington. There had been a suggestion that he become "tsar" of the oil industry-at $250,000 per year-but that seemed too good to be true. He also had friends in the real estate business who might use his services. If the worst came, he could always return to practicing law in Kansas...
...railroad management can legally or morally divest itself of ultimate freedom of action," explained the committee of western railroad presidents last week in announcing, after months of deliberation, the choice of a supervising "commissioner." He will be Harry Guy Taylor, 52, publicist with American Railway Association, No tsar, he will arbitrate on rate and schedule questions, will never initiate action, will have no power to enforce his decisions...