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...coal," perhaps such a board had better regulate as well as arbitrate. 7) Perhaps the most advisable step of all would be for the operators to appoint an umpire or high commissioner, as in the cinema and baseball industries. Said Secretary Davis: "If ever an industry needed a Tsar, coal is that industry." 8) "The man selected would have to be one of ability, courage, decision and heart; a man of the type of Charles Evans Hughes...
...Round and 'round turns slowly a great skeletonized globe. Above it squats a dummy representing God. On three platforms near the periphery of the globe stand actors wearing lifelike mask-faces of Emperor Franz Josef, Tsar Nicholas II and Kaiser Wilhelm II. As the globe turns, all three call upon God to grant victory to their respective armies; but when the dummy makes no sign, each monarch begins loudly to protest his own complete innocence of War-guilt...
This "nothing of importance" was the "November Revolution" of 1917. Out of it clanked and reared the present Communist State, trampling down Kerensky's puny and irresolute Republic. Last week the present masters of Communist Russia made public, contemptuously, the diary of the onetime Tsar of all the Russias, written at Tobolsk. On Nov. 14, when Nikolai Lenin's dictatorship was six days old, Diarist Nicholas Romanov was still in ignorance of its existence and jotted placidly: "Today is the birthday of dear mama* and the 23rd anniversary of our marriage. At noon we heard prayers. The choir...
...genius, often making one forget the superlative beauty of her voice; and the supreme gift of magnetism." Henry Edward Krehbiel, his rival on the Tribune, accorded her "the most sensational triumph ever achieved by any opera or singer." In Europe it was the same. She sang for the Tsar, for the Sultan, for the Empress Eugenie, the Kings of Sweden and Greece. Queen Victoria entertained her at Windsor and Balmoral, had a marble bust made by her own royal order so that the Great Calve should be remembered at Windsor for all time...
...calculated horror Prince Felix Yussupov, cousin by marriage to Tsar Nicholas II, tells in a book Rasputin* (ras-poo-teen), published in the U. S. last week, how the peasant monk wove a "tangle of dark intrigue, egotistical self-seeking, hysterical madness and vainglorious pursuit of power, which wrapped the throne in an impenetrable web and isolated the monarch from his people"; how in greasy boots he walked over the imperial parquets; how he gained almost complete mastery over the Tsar and Tsarina; how Prince Yussupov and the Grand Duke Dimitri, murdered him in an attempt to deliver the royal...