Word: autocrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Weber's fetish for secrecy enveloped the gigantic firm of which he was the autocrat - Allied Chemical & Dye Corp...
...waterfronts. Said Fireman King: "I feel about the A. F. of L. like everybody else in this union. I say the hell with 'em." Said Joe Curran to his 50,000 members: "Don't be played for suckers." But Joe Curran, more of a democrat than an autocrat, believes that if a majority of his seamen want to be suckers, then suckers they should be without let or hindrance from the top. Whether he and N. M. U. can make this theory stick against such laddiebucks as Fireman King & friends remains to be seen...
...late U. S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935), married but childless, had a lifelong professional interest in pregnant women. When he was two (1843) and again when he was 14 (1855), his father, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (Autocrat of the Breakfast Table), initiated campaigns to make doctors wash their hands before attending women in labor. And it was Judge Holmes who ruled from the Massachusetts bench in 1884 that "during the gestation period, the child is part of his mother's bowels," and therefore is not an individual capable of being injured in an accident...
...should now have easier sailing than during the first years of 'planned economy,' from 1929 to 1933. . . . More Communist heads have fallen, either literally or figuratively, during the last year than in any year which has passed since the Revolution took place two decades ago. . . . The autocrat publicly drinks in the adulation of sycophants and privately dreads the unseen assassin. . . Czar Paul of Russia was strangled by a group of officers who were apprehensive of sharing the fate of the many victims of his capricious ruthlessness...
Henchmen of Minister President General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, autocrat of the German Four-Year Plan of Rearmament and Autarchy, have long since occupied the Ministry of Economics (TIME, Sept. 27 et seq.), yet Berlin correspondents have been unable to get confirmation that Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht has actually resigned as Minister of Economics. Last week Dr. Schacht went to a cocktail party staged in farewell to U. S. Consul General Douglas Jenkins who is being transferred from Berlin to London...