Word: tsars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia's first railway was built in 1837 under Nicholas I, "The Iron Tsar," to connect St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) with his summer palace at "Tsar's Village" (now "Children's Village") 14 mi. distant...
...several times. He was born near Cleveland, where his father owned part of the Forest City Stock Farm. Three races he won at the Chicago World's Fair, when he was 16, caused the Grand Duke Nicholas to invite him to Russia. For eleven years Will Caton drove Tsar Nicholas' trotters, won the Moscow Derby eight times and the Grand Prix at Paris in 1902. He set a record by driving one of the Tsar's horses, Trostee, over a mile of ice in 2:08 at Moscow. In 1912 he signed a contract with Vladmir Lezhneff...
...locomotive-engineer named Augustus Phillips of Falls City, Neb. returned to the U. S. from a visit to his native Aitos, Bulgaria. After the villagers had serenaded him and his wife with a mandolin & harmonica band for 16 nights, he related, word of his presence reached the ears of Tsar Boris at the summer palace at Varna nearby. Tsar Boris, whose best fun is driving a locomotive, sent a carriage and plumed horses for Engineer Phillips. Recounted Mr. Phillips: "[at the palace] he motioned me to a sofa and we sat down. . . . He told me that one problem that...
...Cinema Tsar Will Hays and his Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc. have such a hard time controlling the lubricity of the cinema that to expect them to control the lubricity of anything else would seem too much. Yet the Hays organization sometimes attempts it. Last year, regulations against salacious cinemadvertising were added to the industry's code. Last week came another incident to heat and bother the upright Presbyterian soul of Tsar Hays. In Motion Picture Magazine appeared an interview with decadent-looking Tallulah Bankhead (daughter of Alabama's onetime Representative William Brockman Bankhead). written...
...Judge Elbert Henry Gary. But with mills running at a fraction of capacity, steel companies have fought like jackals for what busi ness there was. Price-cutting, price-shading, concessions to favored customers, indirect rebates have demoralized the trade. Though steelmen testily deny that they are enthroning a "tsar," President Lament's chief job will be to whip steel companies into a strong and united price front, stamp out the buyer's notion that he can always wheedle a profit-sucking concession, encourage him to take on normal inventories. Said Myron Charles Taylor, biggest steelman...