Word: czars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Food Czar Chester C. Davis hurriedly pointed out that the report did not carry acreage figures, thus gave no true basis for estimating the year's harvest. He prophesied: 1943 food production may yet match 1942's whopping output...
...Jimmy Byrnes, who is now really the czar of all Washington czars, is one of the country's ablest politicians, in the better sense of the word. He is trusted by Congress and the President-and Mr. Roosevelt is expected to back Byrnes's decisions to the limit. This was never true with former top administrators...
Jimmy Byrnes only too happily handed Fred Vinson his job as OES director. Said Czar Vinson, who still had a sigh left: "I am smiling for the last time today...
...Rubber Czar William M. Jeffers wrote his third progress report to the U.S. people as the biggest, most fully integrated synthetic rubber plant formally began operations in West Virginia. Said Czar Jeffers...
First the Government had begun by backtracking. Economic Czar James F. Byrnes had restored to WLB some of the prerogatives taken from it in the President's hold-the-line order of April 8. The Board thus reacquired power to correct "gross inequities" in wages and to make wage adjustments in order to promote "the effective prosecution of the war." This provided loopholes for concessions to Lewis. It also had strategic value: it silenced the cries of A.F. of L. and C.I.O. against the hold-the-line order and realigned them on the side of the Government against John...