Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years later the Tsar fell, and this ended the agreement. Britain's Foreign Secretary, the suavely arrogant Lord Curzon of Kecleston, then had a lovely dream. He dreamed of extending British control from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea, thereby adding a magnificent frontier province to British India. The Mesopotamian campaign had slopped over into always neutral Persia, but in 1918 the British drove the Turks out and garrisoned Persia's strong places. The next year Shah Ahmad, even bleaker-brained than Shah Muzaffar, had no alternative but to submit to an agreement by which his country...
Boris Shaposhnikov, 58, tough-faced and mild-mannered as a bulldog, planned the Finland strategies, which were lauded by most neutral observers and bungled in the field handling. He is the only Red officer to have been decorated by the Tsar, Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin-testimony to a political nature as canny as it is adaptable. (Without batting an eyelash, he sat on the tribunal which court-martialed and condemned eight of his old Army colleagues, including the late, great Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky...
Krug had made a fast start. But his appointment merely intensified the fight over who will be U.S. power tsar. Fortnight ago FPC Chairman Leland Olds launched an ambitious plan (TIME, July 28) to make FPC (i.e., himself) the boss. Olds ran head-on into Secretary Ickes, the earlier claimant. Said Ickes of Olds's plan: "It does not suit this department at all . . . some recommendations were very
...combination looked like a powerful gang-up on Ickes. But Ickes last week had not begun to fight. Nobody was power tsar...
...bills. The meeting had not so decided, since both Ickes and the White House think Jesse Jones has too much patronage already. In undertaking to embellish the Administration program. Olds seemed to be undertaking something else: a race with his ex-sponsor Ickes for the job of U.S. energy tsar...