Word: autocrat
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...magnificent wolf who was Autocrat of All the Russias...
...course, he always has amazingly clever men under him. You might think he accomplished his wonders through the much-praised devolving of responsibility. But he doesn't. He is an autocrat...
...Rabat, the Premier was met by Marshal Lyautey, French President General. Sultan Mulai Yusef, for whom the French exercise a protectorate and who is nominally the autocrat of all Morocco, granted an interview to M. Painlevé. Through interpreters, the Sultan said : "You have my salutations. Your visit gladdens me. It means that France has interested herself in Morocco with all her heart...
...giving his opinion of to just what extent the president's power extends, he quotes President Lowell in a recent New York address in which he says: "There is a feeling that the President is an autocrat; yet he has no power to decide anything or to give orders to anybody in the institution. Over the professors or the faculty he has no authority of any kind." In spite of this, however, Dr. Kirkpatrick believes that the government is "a benevolent despotism" with the president as the despot. "A practical control over the appointing and administrative boards of the faculties...
...Washington (TIME, Dec. 31) has written: "Few women in official life have the versatility or dynamic personality of Mrs. McCormick. She is a clever politician, an ardent suffragist, a social leader, an expert horsewoman, an effective writer, and a successful farmer. . . . as a daughter of Mark Hanna, so long autocrat of the G. O. P., she learned the political game early. She played a prominent part in the fascinating life of the 'Little White House.' . . . Not even during its prominence as a political stronghold throughout the Civil War did this celebrated old Taylor Mansion on Jackson Place attain...