Word: autocrat
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...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...
...fixtures. But Prohibition cooled the bar business. The music division was sold to Warner Bros. Pictures in 1930. B-B-C lost $3,047,963 in 1929, lost again in five of the next six years. Steering it helplessly in this heavy weather was Benjamin Bensinger, old-fashioned autocrat, grandson of Founder Brunswick...
...Pore had as members James Russell Lowell, the two famed Oliver Wendell Holmeses (the author of Autocrat of the Breakfast Table and the Supreme Court Justice), Owen Wister, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, President Theodore Roosevelt (the Franklin Roosevelts go Fly Club). Among its living members are Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall, Congressman Hamilton Fish, Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, Poloist Thomas Hitchcock Jr., U. S. Ambassador to Italy William Phillips, Journalist Joseph Alsop, and Richard Whitney, now of Sing Sing Prison, of whom all good Porkies prefer not to speak. The Pore is very much a family affair. Upon its roster...
...gloomy autocrat, Bodanzky drove every performance he conducted with a tight rein, lashed world-famed tenors and sopranos at rehearsals with a hot tongue ("Who told you you could sing?"). When he was feeling impatient he would sometimes drag a performance over the jumps as if he were rushing for a train. But when Artur Bodanzky felt just right, he could drive a pack of Valkyries through the Nibelung clouds like Wotan himself...