Word: czars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment at least, the workers had been crushed-just as the workers of Russia had been put down on "Bloody Sunday" in 1905 by the troops of the Czar. "But the Russians can't keep their Panzers here forever," said a young East Berliner lying wounded in a West Berlin hospital. "When they leave, we will fight again until they change the government." On both sides of the Iron Curtain, the world heard with a thrill of East Berlin's rebellion in the rain. Until Wednesday, the 17th of June, the world had come increasingly to believe that...
Talking for the New York Times Magazine, James Caesar Petrillo, czar of the American Federation of Musicians, admitted that his unceasing war against any musical endeavor which does not turn a penny for the A.F.M. had plunged him into the already overcrowded field of expertising on the national defense budget. "I'm in the Pentagon on those service bands," said Petrillo. "I find out they got 187 of those bands. They got five in Washington alone, playing for some Congressman or other. 'Whaddya doin' with 187 of them and cutting $5,000,000,000 from...
...Sverdlov is named for Old Bolshevik Leader Yakov Sverdlov, a crony of Lenin, and the man who in 1918 ordered the execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family...
...dictator to fire company directors, effect mergers, expand or limit production, or even confiscate industries. Fortunately, even the Laborite-Socialists gagged at this proposal and dropped it. The law that did pass allowed businessmen to keep their jobs, even if it conferred most of their powers on an economic czar...
...Czar. And who would this big man be? He was no impartial expert, but himself Norway's strongest proponent of controls: 62-year-old Wilhelm Thagaard, Norway's price-control director for more than 30 years. Thagaard's economic philosophy has a single premise: free enterprise is essentially evil; ethics, integrity and devotion to the community are luxuries which the ordinary businessman, in the struggle against competition, cannot afford. Since business is essentially cannibalistic, it must be saved from itself, and Wilhelm Thagaard considers himself equipped to do the saving...