Word: autocrats
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...another convict in a prison washroom at the Illinois Penitentiary at Stateville. Held for murder, Prisoner James Day, a bantamweight larcenist of 23, swore he had killed in self-defense, told as foul a tale as has ever come over prison walls. He said that Loeb was an autocrat behind bars. As head of the prison school, he could parcel out soft jobs to fellow inmates. He ate in his cell and, by transferring sums from their well-stocked bank accounts, he and Leopold could get guards to do their bidding. Prison had only exaggerated Loeb's un- natural...
...people's Government, which power is wholesome and appropriate, but in the hands of political puppets, of an economic autocracy, such power would provide shackles for the liberties of our people.' Now I interpret that to mean that 'if you are going to have an autocrat-take me! But be very careful about the other fellow...
...With the autocrat's usual contempt for criticism Governor Curley has forced through the appointment of Arthur Baker as judge of the Massachusetts Superior Court. Even a hardy political horse-trader like President Roosevelt should take off his hat to his Boston understudy who has exchanged with a member of his own executive council one of the highest judicial posts in the Commonwealth in return for the failure to vote on an important appointment...
Orlando Weber has been the absolute autocrat of Allied since 1920 when he was easily acknowledged to be the ablest executive in any of the six chemical concerns which were merged to form the giant corporation. Born 56 years ago in Grafton, Wis., he was a bicycle racer in the 1890's-far-famed as "The Pride of Milwaukee...
...autocrat who held Russia with a firm hand, Catherine was democratic to a degree in her imperial household. If her enraged whist partner threw his cards at her feet, she would merely call the onlookers to witness that she had played her hand right. Once when she had an urgent letter to send and all her bell-pealing brought no servant, she found the lackeys busy playing cards, offered to take one of the men's hands while he went out to post the letter. She loved to laugh, and her guffaw was famous. But nothing suggestive ever roused...