Word: czar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That was not Vinson's view. "Now," said he, "the face of America turns westward. . . . The objective has been clearly established by President Truman: 'The primary task facing the nation today is to win the war in Japan -to win it as quickly as possible.' " Unczarlike Czar. The man who drew this picture of the U.S. in transition was a man of long experience in the Government. He was an expert on taxes, a whiz at poker, a lover of sports, an unflustered worker who looks and acts less like a czar than most men with...
...needs of war; 2) resolving high-policy conflicts between Government agencies. He is consulted in labor and stabilization matters, can hand down edicts affecting the whole nation-e.g., immediately after the German surrender he lifted the ban on racing, the curfew, the brownout. He is the home-front czar...
...czar has a small staff of 94. His chief assistants are General Counsel Ed Prichard, onetime law clerk to Justice Frankfurter, physically slimmed down from his baby elephant proportions; ex-WPB planner Bob Nathan, who lends a New Deal tone to the office and an appearance of Neanderthal man to the staff; and mild, quiet Paul L. Kelley, Vinson confidant for 20 years, one of whose duties is to make out Tax Expert Vinson's income-tax return (Vinson's salary...
...Czar Alexander II, in consequence of our abolition movement, emancipated the serfs in Russia...
Never in any sense a czar, he was at best what George Eastman called the "cat's whiskers" of the industry, at frequent worst a whipping boy whose weapons for achieving order in the chaotic young industry were persuasion and patience...