Word: czar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boys & girls who study orchestra and composition each summer among the trees of the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Mich., pay no dues to the American Federation of Musicians. Hence they had every reason to expect trouble from A.F. of M.'s squat, owl-eyed Czar James Caesar Petrillo...
...meanwhile would carry on the camp this summer with non-union teachers, if necessary. Musicians thought Dr. Maddy, member of the A.F. of M. for 35 years, a brave man. Among the great ones Petrillo has successfully defied is the President of the U.S., who was rebuffed by the Czar when he publicly appealed to Little Caesar to lift his ban on making recordings...
...Minorca, and finally to the various capitals of Europe, when the fever-racked young composer breaks the hypnotic spell cast over him by the iron-willed, amorous Sand and sets out on a suicidal concert tour to raise money to help his people in an uprising against the Czar. Paraded across the background in a rather ludicrous attempt at historical realism are such figures as De Musset, Balzac, Pagnanini, and Franz Liszt...
LeRoy J. Petrillo, son of the A.F. of L.'s contentious little Music Czar James C. Petrillo, sat in a 6th Armored Division tank in France, recalled his peacetime job as music librarian at Chicago's radio station WCFL, pondered the postwar world. Said G.I. Petrillo: ". . . I don't ever again want to fight anybody. I'll leave the fighting to poppa...
...solemn meeting of the nation's wartime leaders. The President was flanked by General George Marshall, Fleet Admiral Ernest King, Home Front Czar James Byrnes. Top men of the House and Senate military affairs committees had been called in to listen. At that meeting, held at the White House one day last week, Franklin Roosevelt once again asked for a national service...