Word: czars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Musial, 43, at his home in St. Louis following his collapse from exhaustion at a Cardinals-Braves game brought on by his coast-to-coast labors as director of the nation's physical fitness program; Henry A. Barnes, 57, New York City's controversial traffic czar, in Manhattan's Columbus Hospital with his second heart attack in eight days (fourth in a year), smitten while attending the opening of a police academy. Cracked Barnes, after cops gave him emergency oxygen: "I'm lying at death's door, but they're trying to pull...
...Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, which wrote the original version of the bill. Celler read the bill section by section while Smith doodled fitfully. When Celler began enumerating the Attorney General's powers, Smith scribbled cryptically on his note pad: "Atty. Gen. -Czar." When Celler had finished, Mississippi's William Colmer blew up. "If it's not politics," he cried, "then what is behind all this rape of the constitutional and legislative processes? God pity this young republic...
...made a fortune by adding 1,295 people to his personal payroll in return for a slice of their paychecks. A fellow congressman, one Tenorio Cavalcanti, 58, required almost no investigation: he was already well known as a fulltime gangster (13 killings to his credit) and the sin czar who-fully protected by his congressional immunity -built Duque de Caxias, on Rio's northern outskirts, into a wide-open vice mecca famed for its brothels, gambling dens, brawling street fights and general folderol...
...Denmark's King Christian IX (1818-1906), whose skill at bagging the better thrones for his children earned him the sobriquet "Father-in-law of Europe." One of his daughters was Queen Alexandra, wife of Britain's King Edward VII; another, Princess Dagmar, married Russia's Czar Alexander...
...Democratic Congressman from northern California, an ardent believer in Government regulation of industry, who co-authored bills expanding the Pure Food and Drug Act and establishing the Civil Aeronautics Authority, won his greatest success in 1946 with a law, upheld by the Supreme Court, curbing Music Union Czar James C. Petrillo and his outrageously featherbedding musicians; in Santa Rosa, Calif...