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...Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, which wrote the original version of the bill. Celler read the bill section by section while Smith doodled fitfully. When Celler began enumerating the Attorney General's powers, Smith scribbled cryptically on his note pad: "Atty. Gen. -Czar." When Celler had finished, Mississippi's William Colmer blew up. "If it's not politics," he cried, "then what is behind all this rape of the constitutional and legislative processes? God pity this young republic...
...made a fortune by adding 1,295 people to his personal payroll in return for a slice of their paychecks. A fellow congressman, one Tenorio Cavalcanti, 58, required almost no investigation: he was already well known as a fulltime gangster (13 killings to his credit) and the sin czar who-fully protected by his congressional immunity -built Duque de Caxias, on Rio's northern outskirts, into a wide-open vice mecca famed for its brothels, gambling dens, brawling street fights and general folderol...
...Denmark's King Christian IX (1818-1906), whose skill at bagging the better thrones for his children earned him the sobriquet "Father-in-law of Europe." One of his daughters was Queen Alexandra, wife of Britain's King Edward VII; another, Princess Dagmar, married Russia's Czar Alexander...
...Democratic Congressman from northern California, an ardent believer in Government regulation of industry, who co-authored bills expanding the Pure Food and Drug Act and establishing the Civil Aeronautics Authority, won his greatest success in 1946 with a law, upheld by the Supreme Court, curbing Music Union Czar James C. Petrillo and his outrageously featherbedding musicians; in Santa Rosa, Calif...
...tells the time-tattered tale of a plain-as-rain chorus girl (Carol Burnett) who is mistakenly hired for a star part by the usual illiterate czar of the predictably nepotistic studio, F.F.F. Pictures. With Ella Cinders in her eyes and a mouth a dentist could not open wider, Carol Burnett makes an appealing clown-waif in the celluloid jungle. As her leading man, Jack Cassidy is a personable peacock of vanity, but all his part calls for is preening...