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...lower lip until it bled, was star witness of the week before the Senate Public Lands Committee, continuing its dredging of the Oil Scandals. He was Will H. Hays, who managed the Harding Campaign as G. O. P. chairman, then landed in the Cabinet as Postmaster General, then became "tsar" of the cinema industry, which lofty office he still fills...
Nervousness on the one hand, suspicion on the other, made of this story a very long and confused matter indeed when Inquisitor Walsh made Tsar Hays repeat it over & over. Less stigma would have attached but for two circumstances...
Leeds-Anastasia. Rich Mrs. William B. Leeds of Manhattan, née Princess Xenia of Russia, and thus a second cousin once removed of Tsar Nicholas II, arrived at Manhattan, last week, from a Caribbean cruise. To prying reporters she confirmed the fact that she has now undertaken the protection of that young woman who recently landed at Manhattan, calling herself the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas (TIME, Feb. 20). Discreet, Mrs. Leeds did not reveal the hidden whereabouts in the U. S. of this young woman, who she appears to believe is her third cousin...
...opinion which she still holds and was at pains to cable to Manhattan last week. It is summed up by the ejaculation, "Impostor!" At Copenhagen this view is known to be held by the 80-year-old Dowager Tsarina Maria Feodorovna (TIME, March 28, 1927), consort of the late Tsar Alexander III, mother of Nicholas...
...Anastasia." No imperial personage would be more welcome in the U. S. than Her Imperial Highness, Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest and most vivacious daughter of the last murdered Tsar of all the Russias. Unfortunately a young woman who landed from the Berengaria, last week, claiming to be Anastasia, was believed to be almost certainly an impostor...