Word: tsars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last fortnight, an even dozen of the cinema industry's top line executives, representing all of Hollywood's eight major producing companies, gathered in the office of Tsar Will Hays for the most impressive powwow of cinema bigwigs in a decade. Present were: Barney Balaban (Paramount), Nate J. Blumberg (Universal), Harry Cohn, Jack Cohn (Columbia), Samuel Goldwyn, Maurice Silverstone (United Artists), Nicholas M. Schenck (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), Sidney R. Kent, Joseph M. Schenck (Twentieth Century-Fox), Leo Spitz (RKO Radio), Albert Warner, Harry M. Warner (Warner Bros.), Will H. Hays...
...into her mid-Manhattan berth. For three days the harbor's 300 tugs had been tied up by a strike of 2,000 tug hands, seeking $5 to $10 more a month than the present scale of $3.63 to $5 daily brings them. Last word from Longshore Tsar Joseph Patrick Ryan had been that the Queen Mary would be left standing in the harbor, "a blow to the prestige of the port...
...Galway pilot, the other a medal from a passenger. Swore he: "I spun that medal around and said, 'Well, St. Chris, what about it?' He said, 'Go to it.' " Next day sheepish operators and tug hands came to a hasty agreement. Said chagrined Tsar Ryan: "St. Christopher ought to be made to join the union...
Died. Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovitch, 62, pretender to the non-existent Russian throne, first cousin of Russia's late Tsar Nicholas II; of blood poisoning; in Neuilly, France. A convivial royal liberal, Grand Duke Cyril flitted through Europe's night life, married a divorced woman, the Grand Duchess Victoria of Hesse-Darmstadt (an offense for which he was temporarily banished from Russia). In the Russo-Japanese War he was blown up on the Petropavlovsk at Port Arthur. When the 1917 Revolution began, he placed himself and his regiment at the service of the Duma, fled when Kerensky...
...annual salary of $30,000 (Forbes Morgan got $50,000), Director Sturges will take office next week, will commute from Washington to New Haven for the one course he intends to continue teaching. Not ambitious to become a Liquor Tsar, he presumably will attempt to sell the distillers on policing themselves. Said he: "I am undertaking the office...hoping that by cooperation with the public authorities we can eliminate all aspects of the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages which may be offensive to important groups of our citizenship...