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...party a cablegram was handed Lady Astor. She read it, walked across a terrace, dropped to a half-kneeling position and handed it to Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinov. Cried she dramatically: "I come to you with a petition as the peasants were wont to do before the Tsar!" The message began: IN THE NAME OF HUMANITARIAN PRINCIPLES PLEASE HELP MY WIFE IN MOSCOW. . . . It was signed by one Dmitri Pavlovich Krynine, onetime Soviet expert on roadbuilding sent to the U. S. to study local methods, who was injured in a motor accident, decided to remain...
...Jefe (Boss), the strongest man in Mexico. Last week Boss Calles rode high in his saddle. In an effort to end the country's financial difficulties he had himself mada President of the Bank of Mexico, became what Hermann Schmitz is in Germany: the country's "money tsar...
First act of Tsar Calles was to abolish the gold standard for Mexico, make the silver peso the only legal tender. Managing Director Alberto Mascarenas of the Bank of Mexico followed with the announcement that the entire issue of Mexico's gold notes would be withdrawn from circulation and burned...
...Black Sea was black and stormy around the royal palace at Exinograd, Bulgaria, when Tsar Boris looked out a seaward window. He saw six people in a tiny boat; they were fighting a losing fight with mighty waves. King Boris called a mechanic, jumped into his own motorboat, and "at great personal risk" sped out, towed the six to safety...
Married. Prince Vassili Alexandrovitch Romanov, 24, nephew of the late Tsar Nicholas II, son of Grand Duke Alexander Michailovitch of Russia; and Princess Natalie Galitzine, 23 ; at Whitestone, Long Island...