Word: czars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Helen Traubel, Brünnhildean prima donna, was presented with a seven-year-old white stallion, White Ghost, by Circus Czar Robert Ringling, promptly cast him as "Grane" in the Metropolitan Opera's Götterdämmerung. The horse, a professional dancer, found nothing in Wagner to make him kick up his heels...
...time for all parents to rise in disgust when "Czar" Petrillo goes so far as to ban high-school students from playing over the air (TIME, Feb. 19). I am writing to my Congressman. . . . Petrillo may defy the President, but he cannot defy the parents of the nation if they are sufficiently roused...
...seven years she has practiced three to four hours a day with Interlochen Summer Camp as a guiding influence. This summer she may realize her goal. . . . I have belonged to a union, paid dues and held office. However, I fail to find justification in this most recent attack of Czar Petrillo. . . . My niece has earned and saved most of her tuition fee. Must it go to a union? . . . Why not leave the children alone and fight real issues...
Since the overoptimistic plans made after the U.S. Army's dash to Paris, Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes has determinedly kept the lid on talk of reconversion after V-E day. But last week, as U.S. soldiers whisked across the Rhine, the lid popped off. Out boiled a spate of reports that simmered down to one fact: if the war in Europe should end soon, reconversion would be confusion...
Meat for Caesar. Probably they would get no more satisfaction than did Minneapolis radio station KSTP, which succumbed last week to the uncompromising czar of American music, after fighting a rear-guard action against him for ten months. KSTP agreed to hire a minimum of eight musicians (at minimum wages of $52 apiece for a 22-hour week), which is more musicians than the station needs...