Word: tsars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vanity or patriotic zeal, employed the man years ago. Heney secured the confessions of a number of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco. Holding these confessions like blades of Damocles he "ruled" the city in accordance with the instructions of Client Spreckles. It became a "government by injunction." Tsar Spreckles, said the Los Angeles Times, "sat in his palatial home and delivered his ukases." When Heney ran for District Attorney he was soundly drubbed...
Hugo Stinnes, 54 years of age, was an emperor of finance, a tsar of industry, a king of business. His minions were princes and grand-dukes, his serving men were lords. His interests were as far-flung as the seven seas. His business was no one thing in particular, but everything in general. He dealt in trusts of super-trusts or trusts of trusts of trusts. It has been said that "when you were in Germany the trains and ships on which you travelled, the hotels you lived at, the shops you bought from, the newspapers you read, the banks...
...Eaton, M. Trotsky has fallen in love with brown-haired, lovely Anna Naumouv, 19-year-old daughter of a Moscow storekeeper. Léon became so infatuated wth Anna that he tried recently to turn Russia over, lock, stock and barrel, to Grand Duke Nicholas, uncle of the late Tsar. All M. Trotsky wanted in exchange was passports viséd for every country in Europe, so that he and his adored could flit hither and thither outside of Russia...
...think we can now say we will not make any serious concessions of any material character to our opponents. We shall present our counter claims. A couple of years ago we undoubtedly could have bought recognition for a good price, such as the partial acknowledgment of the Tsar's debts or large concessions to foreign capital. Now we have received recognition without paying a penny or delivering a single carload of raw material...
Engaged. Miss Glory Thomas, daughter of Augustus Thomas, "theatre tsar," to William Elliott, Jr., of Manhattan...