Word: czar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baseball, after passing through its only great scandal in 1919, appointed the late Kennesaw Mountain Landis as its all-powerful "czar," and for two decades his iron hand kept baseball's escutcheon spotless. Now would seem an appropriate time for all professional sports to choose together a joint ruling committee with similar vast regulatory powers, and thus aid in keeping the final outcome of all sporting events in doubt for all the spectators...
Steinert likes to recall the embarrassment she underwent in being misquoted about music czar James Caesar...
...Alekhine, a captain in the Czar's army and later a Nazi sympathizer, was so hated by Soviet chessmen that, although they still make grudging use of his "Alekhine Defense," they call it the "Moscow Defense...
...outright purchase of talent; neither does it allow part-time "jobs". But there is nothing short of a Commissar who can stop interested alumni from assuring Glutz, the promising blocking-back, that coffee, cakes and liniment will be no problem at the U. The Pacific Coast Conference, under minor Czar Warren Atherton, has a stringent rule forbidding even such Alumni dalliance with high-school seniors. While the spirit of the coast authorities is willing, the flesh is relatvely weak; enforcement of this laudable stand lacks the same enthusiasm evinced by high-power alumni...
Sparking the drive is the Government's Ail-Union Committee for Physical Culture. It is headed by Nikolai Romanov (no kin of the late Czar), who bosses 600 stadiums, 14,000 playgrounds, 6,000 skiing stations, 45,000 volleyball courts. Romanov's job is emphatically part of the Soviet preparedness program...