Word: tsars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time has come to put an end to your editorial policy of be-"little"-ing Tsar Boris of the Bulgarians (TIME, Feb. 7). His country may be "little" in comparison to yours, but he rules six times as many subjects as you have subscribers. . . . He himself may be "little" compared with the giant of Sweden, or the barrel-like Göring, but so is the average man, on or off the throne. He has been called "fairly tall" by those who know...
TIME agrees that it has underestimated Tsar Boris, but Reader Clarke, who is thinking of Christian of Denmark (6 ft. 6 in.) has overestimated Gustav of Sweden. A good guess at Tsar Boris' height...
Describing Russia after the Bolshevik counter-revolution of 1917 as the first totalitarian state in Europe, Kerensky pointed to the difference between the situation when he was leader of the Leftist opposition to the Tsar, and the present time when all opposition within the party ranks has been stopped...
...energetic Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs. He presents the government policy of forced land redistribution, inaugurated in 1915, as a "restorative" development--"giving Mexico back to the Mexicans." Compared with the steady progress of the preceding enclosure movement in Spain as well as in Mexico, the peasant emancipation under Tsar Alexander II is bound to appear in a most favorable light...
TIME'S thanks to Reader Roosevelt. He was the 13th man to appear on TIME'S cover (John L. Lewis was 14th). The issue: May 28, 1923. At that time Mr. Roosevelt was making news as the new tsar of a building trades association. The association has not survived the years as notably as Mr. Roosevelt's ability to make news. He has appeared on TIME'S cover three times since. For news of the fifth member of his immediate family to be pictured on TIME'S cover see National Affairs...