Word: czars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plan into practice, they feared that he was trying to become a railroad czar. In the House of Com mons last week, Minister of Transport Tom Fraser said that Beeching's offer to make a comprehensive study of all transportation problems "would not be practical," and Labor members demanded that unions be brought in on decisions to lay off workers and shut down lines. Beeching would brook no such interference. When he failed to win assurances of a hands-off policy, he dumped the whole railroad problem into the lap of Labor...
Walk a few steps past the American history monographs on the fourth level of Widener's stacks and you will find yourself amid such engaging titles as The Vice Czar Murders, Death in the Wheelbarrow, The Corpse Wore a Wig, and Who Cut the Colonel's Throat? You are looking at some of the nearly 2000 detective novels from the 1930's and early 1940's that the University shelves with other fiction in the PZ section. And although Widener's librarians are doubtless more comfortable thinking of these books as the George A. Reisner Collection, official terminology cannot disguise...
...last week Hucklebuck Logan arose at 5 a.m., bussed to Baltimore's grimy city hall. When the offices opened at 8:30 he signed up as the U.S.'s first volunteer for Poverty Czar Sargent Shriver's brand-new Job Corps. Behind Hucklebuck, to the delight of Job Corps officials who had feared that the corps' first recruiting campaign would draw an embarrassingly puny turnout, came well over 400 more kids from Baltimore. Almost all were school dropouts, few had steady jobs, and about one-third had had trouble with the police...
Hoover traveled the world as a doctor of sick mines. At 24, he was chief engineer of China's Bureau of Mines, and a living legend; he was known as "the foreign mandarin" with "green eyes" that could pierce the earth. He advised the Russian Czar on the development of his huge mine holdings, made a fortune of his own, mainly on fabulous lead, silver and zinc mines in the jungles of Burma...
...whose name suddenly disappeared along with Khrushchev's from official pronouncements. President Anastas Mikoyan, 68, though shunted into the role of greeter last week, is still the man with the best balance in the Soviet Union, having survived every change of leadership since the fall of the Czar...