Word: czars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...national radio and television speech (see below), President Eisenhower named Massachusetts Institute of Technology President James Rhyne Killian Jr. as his Special Assistant for Science and Technology. Killian's assignment: to marshal U.S. science against the advance of Soviet technology. Killian will not be a "missile czar." Instead, he will act as the President's trusted eyes and ears, will join the small group of advisers-such as Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams-who have immediate access to the President. Acting on Killian's advice, Ike intends to take over...
INTERSERVICE RIVALRY: The President ordered that William M. Holaday, special Defense assistant for missiles, be given full authority to crack down on what Ike called "alleged interservice rivalries" that might hinder missile development. No more than Killian will Holaday be a missile czar. Rather, he will be a Pentagon straw boss for missiles, working for the President through Killian and Defense Secretary Neil McElroy...
...last week-only this time he was putting national defense to political ragtime. In one of his jazziest now-when-I-was-President moods, Harry recalled how he had seen the U.S. long-range missile program lagging, called in Chrysler Corp. President K. T. Keller, made him a missiles czar, with "instructions to knock heads together whenever it was necessary to break through bottlenecks." After that, claimed Truman, the missile program made "encouraging progress"-until, of course, the Eisenhower Administration ruined...
...Administration muddled along spending about $1,000,000 a year on long-range ballistics missilery (while a lot of the progress was made by Consolidated Vultee Aircraft, paying for experiments on the Atlas ICBM out of its own pocket). Moreover, Chrysler's able Keller, far from being a czar, was an "appraiser" of the missile program, did his able job within that limited authority...
Arthur Godfrey, for this reason, became a minor czar of the TV world, because--in the words of one advertising executive--"He can sell 'em anything." The biggest hit song this year is "You'll wonder where the yellow went...