Word: czars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These were hard blows to Boss Petrillo, who gets $46,000 a year for the most tight-fisted union control in all organized labor. The panel even called Petrillo's ban a strike-a word Czar Jimmy abhors. Petrillo, offbeat, trumpeted that he would appeal, even to the Supreme Court...
When "Bull Bill" Jeffers bowed out of Washington as Rubber Czar last September, he flatly announced: "The big job is done." In the long months that followed, optimism flowed from the Rubber Director's office; full-page, breast-beating advertisements of many an oil company happily assured the U.S. that the Battle of Rubber had been won. But last week, a sheaf of ominous straws fluttered out of Washington...
...Paper Czar Boeschenstein promptly announced that he would stretch no quotas, would try to build up a little surplus in newsprint supplies instead...
...Dangerous precedent ... a threat to freedom of the press," cried J. D. Gortatowsky, general manager of William Randolph Hearst's newspapers. But Czar Boeschenstein was braced to meet this kind of storm, which he had seen coming. He had allocated 20,000 tons of the extra newsprint to 65 newspapers in part replacement of WPB's 1943 borrowings distributed to quota-short publishers. Another 5,954 tons was laid aside for the extra day of Leap Year...
...until August did any reporter even dig up PRC's board of directors : Oil Czar Ickes, the Secretaries of War, Navy, and State, and Foreign Economic Administrator Leo Crowley. But at that time, although Ickes was President, PRC's charter was amended to give Crowley authority even to dissolve the Corporation...