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...That's why I want to be Czar...
...Alfred Kahn. The loose tongue of the chairman of the Council on Wage and Price Stability is increasingly bothersome to the White House. Within two working days. Press Secretary Jody Powell twice had to "clarify" Kahn's statements. First the inflation czar told a congressional committee that he did not favor Carter's plan to decontrol oil prices. Soon afterward presidential aides apparently changed Kahn's mind. Said Kahn: "I am now 100% behind the decision to decontrol. I always have been 49½% behind it." Then he told an AFL-CIO rally that failure of voluntary...
Paley's rise to prominence started from the top. His grandfather owned a prosperous lumber business in the Ukraine and represented the Czar in his provincial town. When he anticipated Czarist pogroms and emigrated to the U.S. in 1888, he brought enough money to think about retiring. The treasure was soon lost through bad investments, but Paley's father Samuel made his own fortune manufacturing cigars. Young Bill joined the family business and quickly proved an adept salesman; one of his special delights was putting together a show called The La Palina Smoker on that new thing everybody...
...with the revolutionary movements in Spain beginning in 1808 against Napoleon, where the revolt was carried out by the crowd, by the mass of people." Princeton University Political Scientist Robert C. Tucker suggests some similarity to the Russian uprising of 1905. Thousands of unarmed striking workers marched on the Czar's Winter Palace at St. Petersburg. Government soldiers fired on the crowd, killing and wounding hundreds. More strikes broke out. Peasant and military groups revolted. Says Tucker: "That may have been the purest case before Iran in the 20th century of a great, spontaneous, popular, antimonarchical movement spreading across...
...Soviets had scarcely finished wiping up Madison Square Garden with the N.H.L. capitalists when Pete Rozelle, czar of all he surveyed in pro football, was on the phone to the White House. "Beat them now, Mr. President," he said, "and beat them big, or they'll be muscling in everywhere−the U.S. Tennis Open, the America's Cup, the jumping-frog contest in Calaveras County...