Word: tsardom
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Commissar Vladimirsky thrilled Sir Arthur and Mr. Kingsbury with the terrors of his life. At 22 (he is 60 now) he was exiled for pre-Communist revolutionary activities against Tsardom. He shared in the "Decembrist" uprising of 1905, was arrested and emigrated "under pressure." In France he practiced medicine, astonished villagers by occasionally treating them free. He was at Lenin's side and Trotsky's during the terrible days of 1917 when the Bolsheviks took command of Russia. No one is more authentically Russian than he, no one more authentically of the Party...
...soul of Gorgulov." Dr. Gorgulov had previously observed, "is not available to Communist gold. Never! I didn't like the Bolsheviks any more than I liked Tsardom which betrayed my country. My sympathies were with Kerensky...
...Hines is eastern counsel for Great Northern Railway, paying particular attention to merger moves. Last week he was on one of his infrequent visits to his country home at Darien, Conn. Questioned, he said he approved of the western roads' plan but had had no intimation of impending tsardom...
Close upon well-dressed Mr. Lederer's election to tsardom, 165 fire insurance companies announced they had selected Paul L. Haid, 44, to be supreme arbiter over their underwriting of 75% of the U. S. business. Industries from corsets to axe-handles have their "institutes," to settle disputes. But more & more tycoons are coming to believe that an absolute "tsar" is the only good solution. Rubber companies recently sought George Taylor Bishop as their ruler (TIME, April 18). Oil has often been on the verge of appointing one. The prime examples of U. S. business tsars are cinema...
...everyone knows, the Tsarist courts had to punish Stalin for everything from advocating Communism to carrying out a daring series of bank robberies to obtain funds for his fellow revolutionists. From 1913 until the collapse of tsardom this "ferocious criminal" languished in exile near the Arctic Circle, having escaped from other jails...