Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same week that Donald Nelson helped President Roosevelt pick a real No. 1 man of U.S. industry-Union Pacific's able president, William Martin Jeffers-for rubber tsar (see p. 77), he went on to pick three other men out of the top drawer...
...That a rubber tsar be appointed to carry out the program, serve as final authority on all problems, direct rationing and conservation...
...threats came from minor officials, but their fine Italian handwriting looked suspiciously like that of A.F. of M.'s big boss, James C. (for Caesar) Petrillo. Ever since he became tsar of U.S. musicians, ex-Trumpeter Petrillo has considered the patrician Boston Symphony one of the chief thorns in his sensitive side. Union pressure has kept the Boston orchestra from broadcasting since 1939. Two years ago Petrillo forced RCA-Victor to stop recording the Boston Symphony, then exulted: "They're through...
History and men's memories saved some other speeches at that war's beginning. There was the 39-year-old Winston Churchill who listened as Mr. Asquith announced to Parliament: "Great Britain is now at war," then burst into tears. There was Tsar Nicholas who said, "We invoke prayerfully the Divine blessing for Holy Russia." There was the Kaiser who looked to the East as he proclaimed: "With God's help...
...foresaw the need was handsome, silver-topped Paul Vories McNutt, who looked at his title of Manpower Tsar and found it meaningless. McNutt's job was to mobilize the nation's men & women for war, get them into the most productive jobs, keep them there. But for all his glamorous title and vast task, he lacked the power...