Word: tsars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before a meeting (1908) between King Edward VII and the Tsar, the King called Sir Arthur to him. "He then asked him to explain the present nature and purposes of Russian policy; the exact names and past records of the Tsar's staff; the prospects of agriculture in Russia; whether the Emperor would wear the uniform of the Scots Greys or whether he would appear dressed as a Russian Admiral; what decorations he would wear and in what order; what about the Russian Railways; whether M. Stolypin spoke French, or German, or even English; what exactly were...
...able Newark News ferreted out a Washington report that Mayor Hague had settled his fiscal quarrel with the Treasury by payment of $60,000. It was further gathered that the payment had been made not by Mayor Hague himself but by Theodore M. Brandle, Jersey City's building tsar. Because tax matters are secret by law, Treasury officials could not and Mayor Hague would not confirm the settlement...
...London Graphic editors, turned up with an intimate photo of Queen Victoria at breakfast with two princesses. When the good queen died, Bert photographed, solemnly and well, the coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra. Elmer, too, got along well with royalty. Armed with a special permit from the Tsar he penetrated the secrecies of Peter and Paul fortress and-unheard of!-photographed the tombs of the Tsar's imperial ancestors. Thereafter an array of grand dukes and even His Holiness the Metropolitan (head of the Russian Orthodox church) could hardly wait to sit for Brother Elmer. Elmer repeated...
Anastasia Tchaikovsky, protégée of various Eastern socialites who say she is Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of the late Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, was reported about to be deported from the U. S., could nowhere be found. But Assistant Secretary of Labor William Walter Husband announced: "We could not deport her to Russia because we have no diplomatic relations with that country. There is no other country to which we could lawfully send...
...Persian art as was Louis XIV to French. A border string of clear gold cartouches separates the ruby field from the main border. Vines rise in colliding spirals of great blossoms, leaves, tendrils. Wild animals fight. Shah Abbas the Great presented it to Russia about 1600, Tsar Peter the Great to Habsburg Leopold...