Word: czar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sitting at his gigantic mahogany desk (the biggest he could buy at Marshall Field's), stub-legged James Caesar Petrillo, czar of U.S. musicians, picked up the receiver. Mr. Trammell said he would like to see Mr. Petrillo soon in New York. Barked Caesar Petrillo: "I'll come only if you're ready to sign. I'm damned tired of all the meetings we've had in the last 28 months...
...businessmen got good news. Boss Robert H. Hinckley, Czar of Contract Settlement, noted in his first report to Congress that $21 billion in war contracts have already been canceled without jamming up production ($65 billion in war contracts are still outstanding...
Last week Czar Hinckley made things even smoother. He put into operation a single cancellation system for both Army & Navy, and gave officers greater authority to make spot settlements of small contracts. Come V-E day, Hinckley predicted, another $20 billion of the contracts will be canceled. He expects speedy settlement of these-the War Department is now paying off on canceled contracts on an average of 45 days after bills are filed...
...consists of four half-barrel-shaped Quonset huts. Its faculty is a pickup team of volunteers. A 47-year-old chief bosun's mate in the Seabees is the faculty's linguist. A onetime student at the Universities of Paris and Moscow and onetime lieutenant in the Czar's World War I army, he speaks French, German, Serbian, Bulgarian, Russian. Another Adak instructor is a music teacher who was once "Amos & Andy's" organist...
Perturbed, the skittery Congress last week passed a surplus property bill which clipped Mr. Clayton's power (see above). Where he ruled alone, a three-man board will henceforth dispose of the estimated $100 billion in surplus war goods. Previously, Clayton had informed Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes that he would not be one of the three; he wanted to quit. His reason: Congress has turned surplus property disposal into a political grab bag. The U.S., he felt, should get what cash it can out of selling surpluses; it should not let them be parceled out among Government agencies...