Word: autocrat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scorching day in 1862, a Boston Brahmin stood on the battlefield of Antietam, from which some 5,000 bodies had just been removed. The old man was the Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, the author of The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay and The Chambered Nautilus-Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. He had heard that his son, Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., 21, was shot through the neck, and he had dashed down from Boston to find the boy or his body. He found neither at Antietam. A week later, in Harrisburg, Pa., the Doctor ran into his son at last...
Like Henry Ford, who standardized automobiles and put them within reach of everybody, Emily Post made polite manners a commodity available to all by reducing them to a set of simple, exact rules. Today, at 67, Mrs. Post is still undisputed autocrat of U. S. etiquette. Mrs. Post has long had another ambition: to write a Blue Book for raising children. Last week it appeared: Children Are People (Funk & Wagnalls...
Hicks affirmed his distrust for any "leader or autocrat who sets himself up as being able to tell others what to do," and said that the example of Russia has shown us that "we must have democracy all the way, and that we can't possibly go from tyranny to a democratic government...
...been a house divided. Every little squeak for peace has been drowned out by the bickerings of A. F. of L.'s William Green and C. I. O.'s John L. Lewis. Mr. Green has called Mr. Lewis many an unpleasant name: "an enemy of labor ... an autocrat . . . consumed with personal ambition." Mr. Lewis has called Mr. Green a "pusillanimous little man who sees ghosts at night and pays the penalty for his own perfidy ... a frightened little man . . . inebriated by the exuberance of his own verbosity ... his mind a little weak." Last week, as usual, there seemed...
...Autocrat Bensinger died. Into control swarmed a squad of five young men with new ideas, led by Benjamin Bensinger's two sons, President Robert F. and Executive Vice President Benjamin E. Weeding out remnants of father's regime, R. F. and B. E., no autocrats, gave their executives' ideas free play. Sales rose, profits soared from $49,058 (1935) to last year's $2,037,435. Last week, at the annual meeting in Chicago, B-B-C stockholders heard President Bensinger predict further sales gains...