Word: czar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sometime plantation boss, Navy officer, newspaper reporter, FBI agent, import-export manager and Texas-based business-school dean flew into Washington to take on a new job. He became the U.S. price czar. C. (for Charles) Jackson Grayson Jr. found that the seven-member Price Commission he was to head had no staff, no permanent office and no secretaries; he had to ring up the Civil Service Commission in Washington to ask how to go about hiring. It was a situation suited to the take-charge spirit of 48-year-old Jack Grayson, who constantly advises associates that "someone...
...irony of our day is that Labor Czar Meany, the dedicated antiCommunist, has placed this nation in greater peril than all of our outside enemies combined. That the electorate has given the power of life and death over our economy to these labor tyrants, and subordinated the so-called Chief Executive to dinated the so-called Chief Executive to their will, says something significant about the composite intelligence of the American people, and it is not complimentary...
Died. Joe Adonis, 69, the onetime East Coast gambling czar, described by the late crime-fighting Senator Estes Kefauver as "the most sinister of all U.S. underground figures"; of heart disease; in Ancona, Italy. Born Giuseppe Doto, "Joe A." became a Brooklyn rumrunner and a kingpin of "Murder Inc.," later bankrolled casinos from Maine to Miami, dabbled in legitimate business. A suave figure partial to conservative suits, Adonis once derided less successful gangsters as "crazy hicks. That fellow Dillinger-why, he had about a quarter in his pocket when he got knocked off." When the Kefauver subcommittee cracked down...
During Baha'u'llah's forty years' imprisonment, he wrote over a hundred volumes and tablets setting forth his spiritual and social teachings. These included tablets sent to the principle political and ecclesiastical rulers of the time: Queen Victoria, Napoleon III, Kaiser Wilhelm I, Czar Alexander II, Kaiser Francis Joseph of Austria, President Grant, Pope Pius IX, Sultan 'Abdu'l-Aziz of Turkey, and Nasir'd-Din Shah of Iran. In these letters, he proclaimed the coming of a new Manifestation of God and exhorted them to lay down their arms and take hold of that which would be conducive...
...Board and Price Commission have "a world of time" in which to formulate wage and price standards before the freeze ends Nov. 13?in full knowledge that his Cost of Living Council has authority to promulgate temporary rules if they fail. He disclaimed any role as economic czar, contending that the COLC would not "veto" any standards formulated by the other bodies?and managed to make his stand sound forceful. "We will not let these groups pass the buck up to us," he said sternly. "If the Price Commission permitted prices that patently were exorbitant." he added...