Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Criticism was sharp and hot against the men responsible for the program: Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, shipping tsar and his sidekick Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery in the Maritime Commission. Critics inside the Administration gave up sniping, got down to the objective of getting leathery, salty "Jerry" Land out. They leveled three withering charges against the whole U.S. shipbuilding program: there was no real central control; there was a dismal lack of coordination; there had been an all-around failure to anticipate needs. They even had a candidate to take Jerry Land's place: the West Coast...
...Atlantic seaboard one of the most critical combat areas in the world. Navy men, scouring the waters with surface and aircraft, knew it well. So did the National Maritime Union, which numbers its losses at sea in the hundreds. So did men on the production front, officials like Shipping Tsar Rear Admiral "Jerry" Land, and shipbuilders who had suddenly had a strange goal set before them: produce ships faster than the Jerries can sink...
...served the Reds, the St. Louis Browns and the N.Y. Americans as a not-very-good catcher. Then he got into the business end of baseball. Today he earns $50,000 plus a percentage of the club's take, the largest salary in baseball next to that of Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis...
Died. Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch, 50, cousin of the late Tsar Nicholas II of Russia; of tuberculosis; in Davos, Switzerland. Handsome Dmitri in 1916 helped Prince Felix Youssoupov with the patriotic liquidation (poison, many shots) of "Mad Monk" Rasputin, close adviser of the Tsarina. After the revolution, Dmitri was in line for pretendership to the throne, refused it in favor of his cousin Cyril Vladimirovitch. In 1926 he married American Heiress Audrey Emery (40 millions), was divorced in 1937. Dmitri was a brother of Grand Duchess Marie (Education of a Princess), half-brother of Princess Natalie Paley (Mrs. John...
...easy solutions to these problems came out of Chicago last week. Defense Transport Tsar Joseph Eastman warned the transitmen that the railroads, with "a herculean job in the movement of troops," could not be expected to carry any more of the local passenger load. The conferees all agreed on one partial solution: staggered work hours for local businesses, schools, etc. Washington greatly eased its frightful traffic tie-ups by putting Government departments on staggered schedules...