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...that time, big-league club owners were no longer interested in Hornsby. Insiders said it was because he played the horses-a practice frowned on by Tsar Landis. Said the forthright Rajah: "I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't read much nor go to the movies. I must have some relaxation." Disillusioned and declaring that managers must be "yes-men" to keep a job in the big leagues, the Rajah drifted back to the minors. When immortality came to him last week at 45, he was back where he started-in the Texas...
...President abolished SPAB, gave Nelson, as head of the War Production Board, final authority-authority greater than any U.S. citizen except the President himself has ever had, greater than that wielded by sage old Bernard Mannes Baruch, World War I production tsar. For the first time under the New Deal, a top man was given power to hire & fire without a Presidential...
...bottleneck had come uncorked with the departure of Winston Churchill for home, the President last week took the most important step in many a week by appointing a single war-production tsar, Donald M. Nelson. Letting loose a flow of energy, he also...
...nearly unbearable, the Russians continued their systematic pressure against Novgorod and the siege of Leningrad. Encircled and facing annihilation were German defenders of Mozhaisk, last Nazi stand within Moscow's defense area. A "surrender or die" ultimatum was tendered to them and rejected. The Russians recaptured Maloyaroslavets, where Tsar Alexander's Imperial Army almost captured Napoleon. An offensive on the Oka River cut down the crack tank Army of Colonel General Heinz Guderian, broodingly handsome pioneer of modern mechanized warfare. Russian forces cut his Panzers to shreds, took vast supplies of arms and material,-a trainload of newly...
...Where in 1904 the Japanese assaulted the Russian fleet while their Ambassador danced at the Tsar's ball in St. Petersburg...