Word: czars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took Hollywood no time at all to make up its mind. Less than 24 hours after Britain's Government levied a new tax which, in effect, will take 75% of the gross earnings of U.S. films, Movie Czar Eric Johnston announced that Britain would get no more of them. Cinemoguls, meeting in a 3½-hour session with Johnston, angrily charged that the tax was confiscatory. "If the British want American pictures," said Johnston, "they shouldn't expect to get a dollar's worth for a quarter...
...Tubby, nearsighted, German-born Rodolfo Katz, whose weekly Mimeographed Economic Survey has long predicted economic troubles, was taken for a ride and beaten up by men masquerading as policemen. The nationalist Tribuna, which has centered its fire on pale-faced, pudgy Miguel Miranda, Perón's financial czar and president of the Central Bank, was closed on "technical grounds...
...between . . . [Siegel] and Virginia Hill, beauteous mystery-veiled heiress, and the disclosure of a 'No. 1 boy friend' in her romantic life led police to the theory that a 'love triangle' rather than an underworld 'double-cross' may have touched off the gangland czar's rubout...
...highest court also ruled (5-3) that a Chicago federal court had been wrong in ruling that the Lea act, a measure aimed at curbing Musicians' Czar James Caesar Petrillo, was unconstitutional. The court ruled that it was constitutional, and that radio stations do not have to hire Petrillo's stand-by musicians when broadcasting transcribed programs...
Visitors found only one flaw: the soloists were a notch below the rest of the production. The Moscow News critic, D. Rabinovich, had another complaint to make: the crowning of a Czar had been made altogether too happy an event. (Even Mussorgsky, no Communist, had not intended that.) Wrote Critic Rabinovich: "One does not feel the forced note in their 'gaiety'. . . the very magnificence of the coronation scene creates a false impression of brightness and joy instead of its being somber and sinister...