Word: czars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief reforms advanced last week: to get games out of gambler-ridden Madison Square Garden and back to the campus, to eliminate the Catskill "borsch circuit," where some of the players were first approached, to persuade newspapers to stop printing betting odds (see PRESS), to pick a basketball czar ("like Judge Landis"), to double the penalties of the bribery law. One suggestion, from Doxie Moore, commissioner of the National Professional Basketball League, candidly seeks to make honesty more profitable than dishonesty: let each college post a purse of $5,000 for any player who turns in a would-be fixer...
...Heartening evidence that Britons had come a long way toward economic recovery was the announcement by Economic Czar Hugh Gaitskell that...
...lawyer, World War II legal adviser to WPB and other boards, now head of NPA, which has the overall job of allocating all materials needed for arms production. Fleischmann's chief aides: LELAND E. SPENCER, 42, vice president of Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. and World War II tire czar, rubber division boss; MARSHALL M. SMITH, 54, former president of E. W. Bliss Co. (machine tools), allocating industrial and construction machinery for defense; DAVID B. CARSON, 60, vice president Of Sharon Steel Corp., channeling iron & steel to arms contractors; WALTER SKUCE, 46, Owens-Corning Fiberglas executive, who helped run World...
...Fringe. Johnston did not capitalize on his political potentialities. In 1945 he settled into the presidency of Hollywood's Motion Picture Association of America as successor to Movie Czar Will Hays. Except for occasional public speeches and a few minor excursions into the headlines when he was involved in complicated movie deals with the British, he seemed content to stay on the fringe of public life...
...Last Second. Other allergies had built up over 5½ years. Club owners could stomach Happy's sonorous ("Ah love baseball") speeches and his bourbon baritone renditions of My Old Kentucky Home, but they found Happy unpalatable whenever he tried to be baseball's "czar" in more than name. The most famous example was Chandler's year-long suspension of Leo Durocher just before opening day, 1947. Other ranklers: the 1949 suspension of Durocher for hitting a fan (later lamely withdrawn when investigation cleared Leo), an order this year to Owner Saigh to cancel a scheduled Sunday...