Word: tsars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...counterjumper in a Pennsylvania village grocery store at 16, he jumped tJ the presidency of Carnegie Steel Co. at 35, three years later sold Carnegie to a Morgan syndicate and became the $2,000,000-a-year chairman of U. S. Steel Corp. Because "I wanted to be a tsar" Charlie Schwab got out of U. S. Steel and founded Bethlehem, which during the first two years of World War I sold $225,000,000 worth of munitions to Great Britain and Russia. Drafted by Wilson as director of the Emergency Fleet Corp. in 1917, in two years Schwab...
Russia in 1925 under Stalin had three times as many suicides as in 1900 under the Tsar...
...Tsar: Boris...
Married. Alexander Feodorovich Kerensky, 58, Premier of Russia's 1917 post-Tsar second provisional government, longtime exile; and Lydia Tritton, 33, daughter of an Australian industrialist; both for the second time; in Martins Creek...
...nearly everybody except the talent working for legitimate theatres, broadcasters, movie houses and cinemakers, he was out with a kingly plan to enroll the talent as well. He proposed to do nothing less than make I. A. T. S. E. and its subsidiaries one big union, himself a labor tsar for the whole entertainment industry...