Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paltering discussions of whether to impose wage controls and farm-price controls-two enormous areas which the bill in the first instance ignores, in the second winks at, lest labor and the farmers be outraged. (This bogey had been challenged by Bernard M. Baruch, World War I defense tsar, who declared that the public will support any bill that is uniform in its treatment of all classes and all goods, if the law is fairly and evenly administered...
...Dame, hallowed by the great Rockne's buttprints, is the toughest spot in U.S. football. On it this season is 33-year-old Frank Leahy, who quit Boston College at the chance to coach at Notre Dame (his alma mater) when Elmer Layden last winter resigned to become tsar of the professional National Football League. Besides a traditionally tough schedule, brave Coach Leahy will be further handicapped by his resolve to overthrow the system of a successful predecessor, substituting stuff that may or may not work with the material at hand. But so great is young Leahy...
With relief the committee then turned from these disagreeable reminders to listen to the voice of experience, that of Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch, World War I defense tsar. Baruch's testimony had been advertised as a thwacking assault on the bill. Several committeemen hoped this would include a few attacks on Henderson. But tall, silver-haired Bernard Baruch had nothing to say against Henderson; he paid him tribute, called him "Brother...
...years after he became Tsar, Peter began to woo the sea. He learned on a Russian lake how to trim a sheet and ease a tiller. Later he went to Holland disguised as Peter Mikhailov, able-bodied seaman, there took a job in shipyards and learned how to warp gnarled oak into clean ship shape with his own hands. He learned navigation, piloting, naval tactics...
Still Brooklyn's front office remembering what happened in 1930 when the Dodgers tumbled from first to fourth place in the season's last twelve days, refused to print World Series tickets. Equally skeptical was Baseball Tsar Judge Landis. Calling a meeting, he set a date for a two-out-of-three-game play-off series (postponing, if necessary, the opening date of the World Series), should Brooklyn and St. Louis come down to the wire (Sept. 28) in a photo finish...