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...riddled with police graft. He appointed young Eliot Ness safety director, started a clean-up which had spectacular results. One racketeer it dredged up was Albert Ruddy, who this week was convicted of shaking down building contractors for thousands of dollars during his 20-year reign as a union tsar. Burton earned for Cleveland, once a city shamed by its record of traffic deaths, the National Safety Award in 1939 and 1940. He turned his attention to public health, and this year Cleveland won the National Health Award. He has fought for free speech and tolerance. To Cleveland this year...
...interests desirous of assisting Brazil in developing her steel industry had begun to survey the field. In April it became known that the U. S. Export-Import Bank had advanced Brazil a loan of $6,075,000 for railroad construction. When a mission headed by Brazil's industrial tsar, Guilherme Guinle, and including her foremost steel expert, Lieut. Colonel Macedo Soares, appeared in Washington to talk business with Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones, the new partner proved to be the U. S. Government...
...Spanish-American War, Cramp's built most of the famous White Squadron, including Admiral Sampson's flagship, the New York. U. S. men-of-war (many were of original Cramp design) made Cramp's world-famous. One day bearded Tsar Alexander II of Russia summoned equally bearded Charles Cramp to his palace, abruptly asked: "Mr. Cramp, at what school of naval architecture were you educated?" Said Cramp: "Your highness, I was educated in my father's shipyard, and he was educated in his father's shipyard. We founded our own school of naval architecture...
...rubbed their eyes at finding the names Walker-Roosevelt-La Guardia tied together again. After lunch at the White House, Mayor LaGuardia flew back to Manhattan and, as he explained upon landing, at 7,000 feet up in the air it suddenly occurred to him to appoint James Walker "tsar" of industrial and labor relations of Manhattan's giant cloak & suit industry. Salary: $20,000. Gravely David Dubinsky, head of the International Ladies' Garment Workers, and ardent pro-Roosevelt campaigner, hailed James Walker's "wide executive experience" as fitting him for the complex job of impartial labor...
...Manhattan, Baritone Tibbett went into a huddle with Boss Petrillo, emerged hopeful. Said Mr. Petrillo: "I'll never be unreasonable with anybody. . . . They can call me tough if they want to, but my word is as good as any contract. . . . Everybody calls me the tsar, the chieftain and this and that. What...