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...Clark, now a U. S. Senator, was prematurely boomed for the 1940 Democratic Presidential nomination by Boss Tom Pendergast. By way of modest acknowledgment, the plump young Senator related an anecdote of his late great father and that statesman's predecessor as Speaker of the House. Thomas B. ("Tsar") Reed. When Speaker Reed was contesting with William McKinley for the GOPresidential nomination in 1896, Congressman Clark met him one day, asked: "Mr. Speaker, are you going to get the nomination?" Replied Reed: "Why, Champ, I think they might go farther and fare worse, and I think they will...
Into the Kremlin's gleaming white Hall of Soviets, where the Throne of Tsar Nicholas II has been replaced by a statue of Nikolai Lenin, crowded happily last week 2,500 Soviet Congressmen & Congresswomen from every part of European & Asiatic Russia. On the stroke of 5 p. m. a big-boned Asiatic in an unadorned Army tunic entered. Up leaped the 2,500 to cheer Joseph Stalin uproariously for 30 minutes and again at every pause during a two-hour speech in which the Dictator presented for ratification Russia's much discussed new Constitution (TIME, June...
Eleven years a Chicago Tribune man, two years assistant to Cinema Tsar Will Hays, John Boettiger was told to make the P-I the "best paper in town." In Seattle, he will find himself in one of the most colorful cities of the U. S. Settled in 1851, a railhead by 1883, headed for civic greatness with the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, Seattle is now 19th U. S. port of entry, still retains the breezy style of prospecting days. Owning its utilities, seat of the Uni versity of Washington (this year's West Coast representative for the Rose...
...Armies had taken Paris four days prior. Headed by Talleyrand, a movement for the restoration of the Bourbons was gaining strength. Only Napoleon could visualize a plan of action in this "hour of his vast reverses." The situation as he saw it was roughly as follows : The Allies, under Tsar Alexander, had taken Paris almost to their own surprise, were uneasy about controlling a city of 750,000, undecided between the Bourbons and Napoleon's son, anxious to avoid an unpopular move. So long as the French Army seemed solidly for Napoleon or his heir, they would avoid...
...commander alone, conferred secretly, then smugly announced that his private negotiations had been broken off. Caulaincourt was getting sick with fear. Afraid to let the miserable Ragusa out of his sight, Caulaincourt dragged him to Alexander. Until five in the morning Napoleon's emissaries argued with that odd Tsar, who was in his most mellow mood. He encouraged them; Napoleon's cause still had a chance. But all precautions were futile, for at eleven-thirty in the morning, when Caulaincourt was having breakfast with Marshal Ney, Ragusa suddenly burst in. stupefied them by jabbering incoherently that...