Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since Mr. Hopkins cannot work more than six or seven hours a day, a smart young New Dealer, handsome Oscar Cox, a Treasury assistant, was assigned to act as legal adviser to Hopkins. The move in effect put Hopkins in as the nearest Roosevelt approach to a Defense Tsar, such as Bernard Baruch was in World War I. But Mr. Roosevelt will continue to run things, with the team of Knudsenhillman assigned more & more to the physical workshop of defense...
Divorced. Betty Compton Walker, 34, onetime dancer; from James J. Walker, New York City's Mayor during the Wall Street-and-nightclub era, now "tsar" of industrial and labor relations of its cloak-&-suit industry; on her second try; because of his "apparently insane tempers"; in Key West...
Your story in TIME, Jan. 27, about Professor Lloyd James's loss of reason and its horrid result [wife-murder] recalled the several kindly letters which I have received from this tsar of English speech...
...York City voter, Jimmy half-heartedly practiced law while his wife ran a flower shop. He conducted a short-lived radio program, looked around for a steady job. And a job to Jimmy meant a political job. Last fall Mayor LaGuardia gave, him one: as $20,000-a-year tsar of industrial and labor relations for Manhattan's giant cloak-&-suit industry...
...time the Army started shopping for more trucks, Sidney Hillman's voice had more carrying power, for he had be come the left side of Franklin Roosevelt's two-headed defense tsar, Knudsenhillman, head of the powerful Office of Production Management. One of the first things Sidney Hillman said in his new, strong voice was that Army orders should go only to manufacturers who respect the Wagner Act and other New Deal labor legislation...