Word: czar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James C. Petrillo, ingenious czar of the American Federation of Musicians, outdid himself in a new dispute with the radio networks: when stations broadcast a musical program over regular channels and FM at the same time, he ruled they will have to hire a second orchestra to stand...
...called "The Speechless Spokesman" be cause, as the industry's Washington representative, he often seemed to be in effectual. His Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. (The Hays Office) also disliked him because he administered the motion picture code with prim inflexibility. So last week Czar Hays finally abdicated...
...dealings today are dated backward & forward from Yalta. That was the key conference of World War II. Jimmy Byrnes was not only there; he was therewith pad & pencil in hand. His shorthand notes are still the best record-in the U.S., at least-of what went on at the Czar's Palace in the Crimea...
...Fight Czar Mike Jacobs set a tentative June date for a Joe Louis-Billy Conn fight, talked big about a transatlantic boxing circuit, with bouts in Manhattan on Mondays and Fridays, in London on Wednesdays...
Harry Hopkins did not plan to quit work altogether. He promptly accepted the quasi-public position of czar of New York's garment industry, a well-paid ($25,000) job which requires no more attention than it got from his predecessor, New York City's onetime playboy Mayor Jimmy Walker...