Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proxies. Last year President Hoover honored Proxy Dino Grandi, pleased Dictator Mussolini (TIME, Nov. 23). Last week Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha sent two Proxies to Moscow and Dictator Josef Stalin supremely honored them by ordering the first Soviet reception ever tendered to foreigners in the former ballroom of Tsar Nicholas II the marble White Hall of St. George in the Great Kremlin Palace...
That night Dictator Stalin was not the host in Tsar Nicholas' onetime ballroom. Though Comrade & Mrs. Stalin live in three rooms at the rear of the Great Kremlin Palace, though they might have come to the party by taking 100 steps, they stayed away?for excellent reasons...
...prime concern to Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc. is the fact that U. S. cinema attendance has declined about 30% in the last two years. Last week the organization took action. To the kind of people that Cinema Tsar Will Hays believes have lately begun to be interested in the cinema-bankers, editors, ministers, scientists, socialites, teachers, writers-were mailed 150,000 small blue leaflets, containing ballots. On each ballot were listed 34 species of cinema under six generic heads. Voters were asked to check their favorite kind of cinema, add remarks. Twelve million more such ballots will...
...Patriotic indignation overflowed. By open letter Shaw tried to persuade Wilson to request that Great Britain, France and Germany should withdraw from Belgium and fight in their own territories. He re-reminded the President of "the quaint absurdity of a war waged formally between the German Kaiser, the German Tsar, the German King of the Belgians, the German King of England, the German Emperor of Austria." Shaw could see the absurdity of the War, could not see the absurdity of fighting witless circumstance with wit. For all his labors nothing but scandal ensued. Right down to the Treaty of Versailles...
Twenty-three years ago Marie, current best-selling Russian Grand Duchess, had a son. Eighteen years ago she parted with him when her marriage to his father was dissolved by the Swedish State Council and by decree of Tsar Nicholas II. Last week mother and son were reunited.- Landing at Southampton from the Europa, Marie cried happily: "I've come over to hear wedding bells!" In her arms she clasped Gustav Lennart Nicholas Paul Bernadotte, a Swedish Prince who has renounced his royal rights to marry a Swedish commoner, Froken Karin Nissvandt...