Word: czar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three years the Administration had juggled the nation's manpower, substituting makeshifts for direct action. Reflecting on the legal machinery available, Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes philosophized: "When you can't ride a horse, ride a mule; if you can't ride a mule, ride a cow." But at week's end the Administration sounded like a man who hoped to ride a horse...
When he left Washington scores of other businessmen-in-government thought it was time to leave too. Even sage old Bernie Baruch, who had warned in February that "the bloodiest, costliest fighting in Europe still lies ahead," now wrote Home-Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes : "Hurry, hurry, hurry, not only in winning the war, but in being ready for the peace." Byrnes's answer was less a plan than a promise. In effect, Jimmy Byrnes promised that virtually all of the shackles would be dropped from business when Germany quit on V-E day. The momentum of war production...
Breaking out into the sports limelight briefly last Monday at the 76th Sports-writers' Luncheon was Bill Bingham, peacetime head of the H. A. A., and czar of the Eastern Intercollegiate Rules Committee, recently promoted to the rank of full Colonel in the army...
...successor. Then suddenly, a fortnight ago, the Judge took a turn for the worse. A joint committee of the National and American Leagues rushed to Chicago, solemnly recommended him for another seven years in office. It was a kindly gesture. Last week, baseball's 78-year-old czar died of a heart ailment...
Caesar Petrillo was not a graceful winner. The companies, he said, had resorted to "bitterness, injustice, trickery and reactionism which would do justice to slaveowners"; they had engaged in a "vile, indecent, malicious and filthy campaign of libel, slander and vilification." Crowed the Czar: "Honesty and fairness had now triumphed over falsity and fraud. ... If they, the companies, fail to change [their past course], the A.F.M. will not hesitate to break off relations and leave them to die by their own nefarious schemes...