Word: czar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Molotov and his leaders swiftly rent the ties that bound Russia-Czar, Church, family, village, the fatherland. The Communist Party established its own ties and it held on through foreign intervention and civil war. Unlike other revolutions, its victory did not wash away as the victors relaxed. The victors never relaxed. Though the Trotskyites scream to the contrary, Russia today has not departed far from the magnificent evil of Lenin's conception...
Should it be operated by the Government? Should it be turned loose to live or die? Should it be kept alive in an incubator by tariff protection? An interdepartmental committee, headed by popular red-faced William L. Batt, wartime rubber czar, tried to answer these questions. Its answer to all of them: No. The Batt committee hoped to turn the war baby into a healthy, unsubsidized and profit-making private industry...
Will Hays, 66, was confused with an Encino, Calif, neighbor named Will Hays, who died. Ex-Cinema Czar Hays, alive & well, modified only slightly the standard denial. Said he: "The rumor of my death is just as exaggerated as was the remark that Mark Twain made famous...
...Congress of Vienna convenes in 1815 (though it looks suspiciously like the Foreign Ministers Conference in Paris, 1946). Wellington, Talleyrand and Alexander, Czar of all the Russias, are about to sit down to a game of cards with Austria's Metternich. Cries the Czar: "Austria play cards on an equal basis with the big powers? Impossible...
...bumptious James Caesar Petrillo, exigent czar of U.S. musicians, it was a week of unparalleled tributes. From Toledo came flattering news: somebody was going around representing himself as Petrillo. In Hollywood, movie magnates cheerfully upped his studio musicians' pay by 33% (previous annual wage: $5,200), agreed to a 44% increase in the number of regularly employed musicians. From Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Nicholas Schenck came the most gracious accolade of all: "We had a very lovely and friendly three weeks of negotiation...