Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediately upon Sir Henry's resignation a rumor was started that he may become the "tsar" which the western U. S. roads are seeking. Fred Wesley Sargent, president of Chicago & North Western, confirmed the fact that Sir Henry's name was being considered. His long railroad experience began in the U. S. A potent football player at University of Pennsylvania in 1893, Indiana-born Sir Henry coached the Vanderbilt University team at $100 a week for his first job, then became a draftsman for Pennsylvania Railroad at $50 a month. He caught the attention of bush-bearded Leonor Fresnel Loree...
...Widely discussed in railroad circles last week was the possibility that the western roads might appoint a commission to regulate them, arbitrate among them, at the head of the commission to be an all-powerful "tsar." Such a ruler could eliminate duplications of service, reform methods of freight solicitation. The man selected would have to be a national figure, not an officer of any road. Walker Downer Hines, who managed the railroads for one year under Government ownership, was mentioned as a possibility. At present Mr. Hines is eastern counsel for Great Northern Railway, paying particular attention to merger moves...
...Last week Sheriff-eject Farley became tsar of New York City's racket-infested cleaning & dyeing industry. Salary: $50,000 a year...
Cooperating Conference. Month ago Emil Lederer, resident U. S. director of Hamburg-American Line, was elected "tsar" of the North Atlantic Passenger Conference (TIME, May 9). Last week his regulating hand was seen when all lines announced a 5% upping of eastbound and round-trip tourist third rates and a 10% upping of eastbound and round-trip rates for regular third class. Westbound rates were increased but slightly. Originally all lines had intended a 10% reduction but Canadian Pacific cut 20% and several competitors followed. The 20% reduction made operations unprofitable...
...months nearly every major European diplomat was in Vienna. Most of them might as well have been cinemactors; only five nations had anything to say: victorious Russia, Prussia, Austria, England and defeated France. They dealt behind doors, not in open Congress, through shrewd diplomats, not bemedaled clotheshorses. Metternich, the Tsar, and France's Talleyrand were the most important. Talleyrand, although he represented the losing Power, was able to break into the negotiations and align England and Austria against Russia and Prussia. Nor did the Congress break up when Napoleon escaped from Elba. It stayed until shortly before Waterloo, until...