Word: absolutist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was a tremendous revelation of the degree of intolerance, the unscientific absolutist dictatorship of religious feeling, of the legislators and people of Tennessee in the Scopes Trial. It was an example of unassailable belief which seemed inconceivable in this United States of today; and hopefully it was thought confined to Tennessee. A similar anti-evolution bill failed of passage in Florida. But Arkansas has gone further than to place an anti-evolution bill on the ballot for referendum. The municipal government of Little Rock has given unimpeachable evidence that agitation against such a measure is not there the inalienable...
...stifling censorship has made impartial news despatches from Bulgaria rare to the point of nonexistence. Last week the cables reported that Premier Tsankov and his absolutist Cabinet had been forced to resign when the gradually crumbling Government coalition in the Sobranye (Parliament) failed to obtain a majority. It was declared that ten Macedonian Deputies who bolted from the Tsankov coalition caused the Government's fall. Promptly Tsar Boris of Bulgaria evinced his satisfaction at the fall of Tsankov by calling upon that noted Macedonian jack of all political trades, M. Andre Liaptcheff, to form a new government...
Ergo, Señor Leguía is even now forced to maintain an elaborate system of private guards and espionage to protect his life. Often it has been asked whether such an absolutist can justify his rule. Always Leguía has been able to point to his signal achievements in administering the finances of the republic and extending its commercial prosperity. Today he is in the habit of asserting that the national debt of Peru is smaller per capita than that of any other nation. Often he remarks with satisfaction upon the large investments of U. S. capital...