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Ever since Benito Mussolini married off a sloe-eyed daughter of Italian King Vittorio-Emanuele III to earnest Tsar Boris of Bulgaria, France and her "Little Entente" Allies have been working to counteract Il Duce's supposed influence on the Bulgarian Court. Both Little Entente kings-Carol of Rumania and Alexander of Jugoslavia-have been courting Boris. A "Three-Kings Conference" of Boris, Carol and Alexander is in prospect at Sofia on Jan. 31, the day after Boris's next birthday. Last week the Tsar of the Bulgars took his Italian-born Tsaritsa to Jugoslavia to break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUGOSLAVIA: Royalties & Slava Cake | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

...aftermath. In one is to be seen a very dowdy Woodrow Wilson broadcasting while a little dove exhibits the message "He kept us out of War''; Eugene Debs in jail; the faces of the Rockefellers, J. P. Morgan, Sir Basil Zaharoff, Colonel House, Clemenceau, Tsar Nicholas, the Emperor of Japan, Bernard Baruch; behind them the "Living Death" and other photographic War horrors taken whole from The Horror of It (TIME, March 21, 1932). The other panel shows a row of blue-clad factory girls apparently chained to a stamping machine, nine young Negroes to represent the seven "Scottsboro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Communist Riches | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...that anyhow Congress had not appropriated money for that purpose. He has more power over Treasury expenditures than the President, must see every check that is written from 1? to $1,000,000,000. He can be overridden by no Government official. Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl has been tsar of U. S. Treasury expenditures since 1921. He is responsible to Congress alone, interprets Congressional law with literal exactness. He was appointed by President Harding after he had led the Republican Party in the election of 1918 to its first major Congressional comeback since the debacle of 1912. But politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Collision Averted | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

...Francis" in the John Graver Johnson Collection in Philadelphia; the "Annunciation," purchased from the Soviet Government four years ago. The history of the Metropolitan's diptych is well known. It was discovered in Spain by the Russian Ambassador Dmitri Pavlovitch Tatischev, was bequeathed by him to Tsar Nicholas I, who placed it in the Hermitage Museum in 1845. The same agent, President Charles R. Henschel of Knoedler & Co. who acquired the "Annunciation," reputedly for Andrew Mellon, finally after years of secret conferences in London, Paris, Berlin closed the Metropolitan's diptych deal. What he paid neither the Metropolitan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Momentous Diptych | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

Before he became "Tsar" Mr. Lederer, now a naturalized U. S. citizen, was the U. S. resident director for Hamburg-American. Months ago he ordered his old business friends of Hapag and former business rivals of North German Lloyd to stop accepting blocked marks. For a while they disobeyed him, later obeyed. Last week Tsar Lederer, after delving through the two lines' books, decided that during their period of disobedience they lured away 4,000 passengers from the other conference lines. He ordered Hapag to pay $69,000 in restitution, North German Lloyd to pay $113,000-this money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Shippers Punished | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

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