Word: autocrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roof squats and reigns that absolute autocrat responsible not even to his gods. His Majesty Tribhubana Bir Bikram, proud and by no means petty Mahara-jadhiraya of the valorous, stubbornly independent Kingdom of Nepal...
...revue in words, in modern, cynical-sensual style. Hero Jacques Struk, of no stated occupation, comes to Movieland, falls in love with one of its minor but typical stars, artificial, Kleig-eyed, burntout; after her death he fades from the picture. Movieland is ruled by Director Emerson, absolute autocrat; its queen is Carlotta Bray, perennial virgin lover, who gives herself to millions on the screen, to none in the flesh, and is finally raped to death by fat Comedian Carlos Wilh (reminiscent of Comedian Fatty Arbuckle). Movieland is crude, violent, highly colored: a succession of journalistic pieces rather than...
...Haitian Commission which sailed for the U. S. from Port-au-Prince after a fortnight's investigation in the Black Republic. General was the prediction that the President, on the Commission's recommendation, would promptly withdraw Brigadier General John Henry Russell, U. S. High Commissioner and unofficial autocrat over Haiti, and appoint in his place a regular diplomatic representative...
...Radical, Señor Irigoyen has put through such advanced legislation as the bill providing full-pay pensions for all middle-aged workmen. As an Autocrat, he holds every week a semifeudal and entirely unofficial court before which any Buenos Aires bootblack or beef baron who dares to do so may appear and tell his troubles. As an "original," Hipólito Irigoyen is rapidly turning white the hair of Argentina's more orthodox statesmen...
...funds, quixote Irigoyen's dislike of paying bills is such that for months he has held up payments to the State's legitimate creditors. In British shipyards lie two destroyers, ordered and approved by the Argentine Government. Congress has voted the money to pay for them, but the Radical-Autocrat will neither pay nor explain. (TIME, July...