Word: caesarism
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...pitch was petulant, as usual, but the lines had the lingering quality of an old torch song at midnight. "It's never, never, never," intoned James Caesar Petrillo. "That's all there is to it." And at midnight on New Year's Eve that was all there...
...Leningrad's Pravda, Khapuga, acting on rumors of impending currency reform, took the rubles he had hoarded in his boots and bought everything he could find for sale. His purchases: one wolf trap; one wolfhound; two accordions; one well-preserved Egyptian mummy; one plaster bust of Julius Caesar; five tombstones; 100 quarts of bug poison. When he heard he would have to give up his remaining rubles at ten for one, he was so upset he stumbled over his wolf trap, upsetting a tombstone which broke a bottle of bug poison, the fumes of which drove his wolfhound...
Cocky little James Caesar Petrillo just sat back and waited. Recording companies rushed symphony orchestras, hillbilly bands and blues singers in & out of studios, trying to record as much as possible by January 1, when Petrillo's ban on record-making becomes effective. Record officials gloated that they had piled up a big enough backlog of new records to last a year or more. They were hopeful that Petrillo's Musicians' Union might not be able to stand so long a layoff...
Rank's producing companies-all controlled by G.C.F.-were leaner than even his U.S. rivals had hoped. Hollywood had guessed that he had lost money on such prestige pictures as Caesar and Cleopatra. But they had not suspected, as the books showed, that the loss in 1944 through 1946 had been a thumping ?2.2 million. The company's other interests had pulled it into the black in 1944 and 1945, but last year the net loss...
...many in the next six weeks. Crosby and Sinatra master platters were stacked ceiling-high. RCA-Victor had enough classical masters to last 25 years. Popular bandleaders were canceling fat dance dates to squeeze in recording dates. Everyone was getting set for the ban on record-making that James Caesar Petrillo, boss of the Musicians' Union, had ordered...