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...find out how much his keenest competitor is being assessed. Menaced with fresh Nazi warnings that there must be no grumbling, German industrialists big and small were paying up, but their disgruntlement was such that it could not be concealed. Privately they tipped off foreign correspondents that Economic Tsar Schacht's assessments are, in nearly all cases, heavy enough to absorb the harassed manufacturers' 1934 profits, and in many cases so heavy as to turn profits into deficits. Even firms notoriously in the red have been assessed and were paying up last week, as Tsar Schacht brusquely demanded...
...Edwin Collins ("Alabama") Pitts, one-time Sing Sing convict: permission to play professional baseball except in exhibition games; from Baseball Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis (TIME, June...
Crack-pated Manhattan Communists call the perspiring Irish police who crack their pates in Union Square "The Cossacks!" Last week the world's true Cossacks, crack cavalrymen of Tsar Nicholas II who are now mostly taxicab drivers, doormen, janitors and such, conducted by mail the first election for their supreme Cossack chief or Ataman ever held outside Russia...
...least of Joseph Stalin's feats of violence in Soviet Russia has been to suppress and subjugate the famed Cossacks of the Don, for centuries Russia's boldest spirits, enjoying special immunities from the Tsar in return for their deathless loyalty and arrogant readiness to shoot down proletarian scum at the drop of a shaggy caracul hat. Some 20,000 members of the eleven Cossack tribes are now exiles, scattered throughout the world. Best known Cossack among non-Cossacks today is the distinguished War commander, General Peter Nikolaevitch Krasnov, blood-curdling author of such best sellers as From...
...back as the Crimean and Japanese Wars the government had lost prestige at home and abroad, but demands for reform were met with more systematic repression, until by 1917 the Tsar could scarcely find support outside the ranks of the nobility. The livest sections of Author Chamberlin's history are to be found in his descriptions of the collapse of the Romanov autocracy, "one of the most leaderless, spontaneous, anonymous revolutions of all time," and of the hourly dissolution of the monarchy that suddenly fell apart like a gigantic One-Hoss Shay. Again & again Author Chamberlin introduces incidents...