Word: tsars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Wilkes Booth was long exhibited, with the tale that Lincoln's assassin escaped from the burning barn near Fredericksburg, Va., became a conscience-stricken wanderer, killed himself in Enid, Okla. in 1903 (TIME, Dec. 28, 1931). Some other legendary survivors: Louis Charles, Dauphin of France; Earl Kitchener; Tsar Nicholas II; Belgian Banker Alfred Lowenstein. As the years passed there grew up in the North Carolina countryside a firm belief that Peter Stuart Ney had actually been the Marshal of France. Amateur historians delved into the matter, wrote earnest monographs and pamphlets. Their explanation: Marshal Ney's firing...
From dazzled Austrians, Yugoslavs, Greeks, Bulgars and Hungarians, through whose central banks Dr. Schacht had swept like a meteor last week, deigning to dine with premiers, having audience with King George of Greece, Tsar Boris of Bulgaria and accepting the Hungarian Cross of Merit, First Class, from the fingers of Regent Horthy, correspondents gleaned Schacht facts...
...grippe; in his villa near Moscow. Turned out of his grandfather's house at 9, he became a ragpicker, a scullery boy, a sailor, bitterly described Old Russia in short stories, novels (The Outcasts, Comrades, Mother), his celebrated play The Lower Depths. Imprisoned and exiled by the Tsar on Bloody Sunday (Jan. 22, 1905), he returned in 1914, served as a private in the War. He supported the moderate Kerensky regime, thunderously opposed the Bolsheviki, reluctantly accepted a Government post from Nikolai Lenin which he abandoned shortly to nurse his failing health in Capri. Induced to return...
...Byrns was not a great Speaker in the tradition of "Tsar" Reed, "Uncle Joe" Cannon and "Nick" Longworth. But the same big, warm heart which kept him from giving the unwieldy House the iron-fisted discipline it often needs made the onetime Tennessee farm boy one of the best-liked Speakers the House has ever had. Last week the nation's statesmen forgot his amiable, easy-going leadership, paid heartfelt tribute to his honest simplicity, blamed his death on the conscientious industry with which he strived to fulfill his duties. "He served his State and the nation," mourned President...
...fights, has been pleasantly identified with the Pension Board whose assets were $6,000,000 when he joined it. Since then its rolls 'have been enlarged to include every Presbyterian minister over 65, many of them still active pastors. Such Presbyterian laymen as Andrew William Mellon and Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays have given and helped raise funds for the Board, and last year Secretary Master was able proudly to announce that with assets of $40,000,000 it had not lost a cent since 1928 (TIME, Oct. 21). Also proudly, Dr. Master announced last month that the Board...