Word: zaharoff
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...this violent polemic against the world's munitions makers opened in Manhattan last week, the League of Nations estimated that $9,295,000,000 was spent on armaments in 1935. The action of Mr. Kingsley's play, however, closes in 1927. In Ten Million Ghosts, Sir Basil Zaharoff is transformed into ''Zacharey'' (George Coulouris). France's great steel & armaments association, the Comite des Forges, is called "Universe Forges Inc." A young French poet named Andre (Orson Welles) is in love with Madeleine de Kruif (Barbara O'Neil). He becomes a War aviator...
...seething with ambitions for a coup d'état. As always since the War the stabilizing influence in Greece remained British influence. The millionaire widow of M. Venizelos is the daughter of a British-nationalized Greek. Another British-moneyed fingerer in Greek pies is Munitioneer Sir Basil Zaharoff. King George II himself went direct from London to resume the Greek Throne as the protégé of King George V and London bankers (TIME, Dec. 2). As Greek church bells tolled for Venizelos and Greek flags flew at half mast, Greek censors passed Athens dispatches in which correspondents...
...Zaharoff's guns, if we're not wary...
...Harvard, that Satan only appears on this world with horns, claws, and a tail, or even behind black, handle-bar moustachios, or with a sawed-off shotgun bulging through his trouser-leg, or last of all, only in his especial minions, J. P. Morgan, A. Capone, and B. Zaharoff. Truly I (for I am he) have been well oiled and stream-lined since those silly days...
...popular imagination of the world," cried Sir Philip from his padded seat, "there is no doubt that Zaharoff is regarded as a very sinister figure walking through the courts of Europe as agent for the sale of munitions. . . . Was he not your general agent...