Word: autocratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means of red and green lights, told him how each member of each chamber downstairs voted. Senator Long may be mocked as a cheap demagog by the nation-at-large and his popularity with Louisiana voters may be on the wane, but at Baton Rouge he is still an autocrat. In a fashion which would have won instinctive approval from Benito Mussolini, he began to get things done...
...frightened Ahmed Shah fled to the fleshpots of Paris. Two years later Riza Pahlevi, by that time Premier, was elected by the Majlis to be Shah and King of Kings with "full powers" which make him in fact independent of the Majlis. Always domineering, he now became the utter autocrat and one day even kicked his first-born and beloved son Crown Prince Shapur Mohammed Riza into the palace pond for a trifling offense...
Investigators of the American Association of University Professors last week reported on President Hamilton Holt's summary dismissal of Professor John Andrew Rice and others from Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla. (TIME, June 19, July 10, Sept. 4). President Holt was found to have made himself autocrat of Rollins. ("When you want to fire a cook, you don't go out and get a committee of neighbors to tell you what to do, do you?") Professor Rice, no ''yes-man," had vexed President Holt and other Floridans by behaving much as satiric, cacographic Dean Swift...
...Hitler's land is in close parallel with the fate of Christianity in Russia. No religion espousing spiritual individualism and political liberalism can hope to stand against the rush of the Religion of the State. At every turn, if it is true to itself, it will clash directly with autocrat and mobbism, with the worship of fore and the submission to irrationality. If Hitler survives, Protestantism will not. Whether or not a throwback to the myth of Wodin and Thor will succeed is a other matter; but even if these gods do not survive in name, their crude unreasoning spirit...
...United States," said Mr. Runciman, "President Roosevelt, the greatest autocrat in the world, has chosen to make a huge experiment. If the United States were a little world all its own it is conceivable that the experiment might succeed but she is also involved in foreign trade. . . . America could have made a great contribution toward world financial confidence had she stabilized her dollar in relation to the pound and the franc [which President Roosevelt refused to do at the time of the World Economic Conference]. I say without hesitation that before many months have passed the United States authorities will...