Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...local managers of George White's Scandals and of the Kaufman-Hart comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner to drop references to John Lewis, announced that any mention of C. I. O. and its boss will be forbidden hereafter on Chicago stages. When Chicago newspapers fumed about Tsar Petrillo in a censor's role, Jimmy announced for local consumption that he was just joking. Impresario White took him at his word, at week's end put John L. Lewis back in the Scandals, waited to see what would happen. Said Manager Sam Gerson, as host...
...names were not to stick very long to this newest subject of the Tsar; he was to answer to Soso, Koba, David, Nijeradze, Chijikov and Ivanovich until at length he acquired the pseudonym of Stalin, Man of Steel...
...only two who were able to brag in later years that they stuck it out for the most part inside. At World War I's start Stalin was in a prison camp just below the Arctic Circle. He got out when a general amnesty was proclaimed at the Tsar's abdication...
...Secret police reigned as ruthlessly over Russia as in Tsarist times. First it was the Cheka, next the OGPU, later the N.K.V.D.-but essentially they were all the same. Comrade Stalin recognized their function when, one day, he viewed that part of the walls of the Kremlin from which Tsar Ivan IV watched his enemies executed, was reported as saying: "Ivan the Terrible was right. You cannot rule Russia without a secret police...
...children go to school, but live in the Kremlin. Joseph's cackling, gossipy mother, old Ekaterina Georguvna Djugashvili, whom Soviet and foreign journalists used to dote on interviewing, died in Tiflis in 1937. She had for several years lived in an apartment in the former palace of the Tsar's Georgian viceroy...