Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heavy, surly-faced Grand Duke Vladimir, 23, who gets a large part of his exercise as pretender to the Romanov throne. A first cousin once removed of the late Tsar, he is the son of the late, sumptuously-mustached Grand Duke Cyril, who in 1924 proclaimed himself "Tsar of all the Russias" and died in 1938. Grand Duke Vladimir's mother was a German Princess of Saxe-Coburg. He was born in Finland, where his parents had fled to escape the Red terror, attended London University, is now supposedly in Paris, where he has long been considered an admirer...
...brother-in-law, Prince Louis Ferdinand, who is the eldest living son of the late Crown Prince of Germany. He married Vladimir's sister Kyra in 1938. Adolf Hitler is said to have encouraged the marriage and to have suggested that he might make Louis Ferdinand the Russian Tsar. In the '20s agile Louis Ferdinand studied as an apprentice mechanic at the Ford Motor Co. in Detroit. Before World War II he was a pilot for Germany's Lufthansa airline and he has recently flown with the Luftwaffe...
...Shaw spent five years in Russia, served as U.S. vice consul in Siberia, helped spirit the bones of the Tsar's family out of the Soviet Union to the British at Harbin, Manchuria. A vice president, he now bosses National City's foreign exchange trading...
...Stettinius added copper, may soon have to add zinc and other metals now under partial control. He also warned manufacturers looking for substitutes to steer clear of other essentials to defense. At the same time Franklin Roosevelt appointed Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, who talked of gasless Sundays, Government tsar of the oil industry...
...with a report on radio as a monopoly, a report which threatened to topple the whole controlling superstructures of the two big chains, NBC and CBS (TIME, May 12). Mark Ethridge, liberal, sense-making general manager of the Louisville Courier-Journal, the industry's keyman and ex-radio tsar, had just promised President Roosevelt to make a general survey of the industry. After the report, to start the survey would have been like beginning a census of Yugoslavia the day after the Nazis launched their Blitz...