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Odysseus Pangalos, youthful son of that ruthless autocrat, Dictator-President Theodore Pangalos of Greece, arrived last week at Belgrade, Jugoslavia, and rushed to extract one G. Skiades, Greek merchant, from the toils of the Belgrade police...
...ready to get and do many other things, when the Balkans broke open. He believed that Gladstone's previous premiership had lowered British prestige. Bismarck had become Europe's autocrat. So when Bismarck seemed to take control of Balkan affairs against Turkey, it touched the Imperial pride and anti-Gladstonianism of Disraeli, who promptly told Bismarck, "No!" Thus, despite Gladstonian moralizing, Disraeli went to Berlin in 1878, dictated a Treaty which left Turkey a little territory and Britain all the glory. Glorious indeed was the day when Bismarck summarized Europe by saying: "Der alte Jude, das ist der Mann...
...novels, but it was not till 1857 when Oliver Wendell junior was 16, that he joined with Jamer Russell Lowell in founding a magazine. Holmes called it The Atlantic Monthly. In a large measure Holmes "made" the magazine and it "made" him, through the publication of his essays, The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table, followed by The Professor, etc., and The Poet, etc. In these he exhibited his wit?noted in conversation?and his liberal opinions...
...Antonio D. Pagua, Councilman-elect of Manila, was convicted yesterday and sentenced to four months' imprisonment on a charge of having insulted Leonard Wood, the present governor-general of the Philippines. The culprit's offence had consisted of referring to the general in a recent political campaign as an "autocrat" and a "usurper of Philippine autonomy",--terms not altogether indefensible in view of the general's well-known partiality for military methods...
...Peter stalks into the Council of State. With his dagger he nails to the table a paper in his sister's hand. She has signed it "the Autocrat of All the Russias...