Word: autocrat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charge that Stalin never amounted to much as a pre-revolutionary theorist. Beria's Stalin is always right, always on the Leninist beam, always out in front of "the toiling masses." Why did this crass flattery matter to Stalin, who was already the world's most powerful autocrat? Precisely because the Communist regime had struck no real social roots, it attached fantastic importance to nuances of "theory." The Communist victory had been made by ideas in the heads of a handful of men, plus overwhelming police power used to cover up the failure of those ideas to create...
...Madam," said a male ghost, rising on tiptoe to speak over his wife's shoulder (he also had a bullet hole in his forehead), "I am Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Tsar of Moscow, Kiev, Novgorod, Kazan, Astrakhan, of Poland, Siberia and Georgia, Grand Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Podolia and Finland, Prince of Estonia, Livonia and Bialystok, Lord of Pskov, Riazan, Yaroslavl, Vitebsk and All the Region of the North, Lord...
...Democratic Union - known as the Jewish Bund. Though both re mained revolutionaries, from 1903 onward he opposed Lenin's methods. In 1917, thirteen days after Lenin's seizure of power, Zaslavsky's opposition twanged toward its angriest pitch : "Lenin has taken power to become the genuine autocrat of Russia. ... So far only the bourgeois press has been extinguished. . . ." Twenty-one days later: "In Petrograd the Bolsheviks are closing up the press with sadistic cruelty indeed." Thirty-three days later: "Preliminary censorship! All fools and scoundrels have protected themselves by this instrument." Lenin had answered: "Capitalism purchases...
Brown-eyed Edna Chase, mother of Actress-Author (In Bed We Cry) Ilka, has edited Vogue ever since 1914, five years after the late Conde Nast bought it. In & out of her chartreuse-and-beige office, she is a hard-to-please autocrat ("my wastebasket is my strongest ally"). Her philosophy is frankly snobbish: "We are reflecting the way of life of people with wealth and taste and social position." To help catch the reflections, Vogue has introduced to fashion coveys of high-priced painters (Christian Berard, Edouard Benito) and photographers (Cecil Beaton, Edward Steichen, Anton Bruehl). Its fine arts...
...undersigned members of the board of directors of Columbia Concerts resent your article on Rodzinski in which Arthur Judson, Columbia's president, is referred to as "King Arthur," and by implication the owner of [this] company and its autocrat...