Word: czar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Czar to Commissar. "Just as the warnings of James Monroe were directed emphatically against the territorial encroachments of Imperial Russia on the North American continent, so ... the non-colonization of new areas by Communist aggression is now declared to be a cardinal principle of American foreign policy...
...Film Czar Eric Johnston, who always provides a fragrant oratorical nosegay, was in top form. Movies, he declared, are immortal art-the first new art, in fact, since Greek drama...
...conference rooms of Pittsburgh's William Penn Hotel last week, the Council brought together veteran representatives of management & labor-Movie Czar Eric Johnston, President Paul G. Hoffman of the Studebaker Corp., C.I.O. Research Director Kermit Eby, A.F.L. Research Director Boris Shishkin. Altogether, some 370 delegates-about two-thirds laymen -representing 27 Protestant denominations showed up at the conference...
...some roads). But watered stock, low rates (fixed by the Government) and truck competition cut into dividends; for years the British owners have been dickering to sell out. Last week's ceremony in the Salon Blanco of the Casa Rosada (Government House), where Economic Czar Miguel Miranda and British Ambassador Sir Reginald Leeper (for the British shareholders) signed the bill of sale, finally ended the negotiations...
...three decades ago, Hollywood, suffering economically from boycotts raised against certain of its products by religious, business, and other organized groups, reached down into its grab-bag and came up with Czar of all the movies Will Hays and his code of ethics. Purely a device for self-protection, the Hays Office eliminated "offensive matter" before a film was released, established the five-second sanitary kiss and Sunday school dialogue, and--eliminated harmful boycotts...