Word: autocrats
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...attempt was made by the radicals, assisted by the Ku Klux Klan element, to deprive President Lewis of his power to appoint union organizers, with the purpose of having the offices made elective. They argued that this patronage power made Lewis an autocrat. A standing vote was taken and Lewis lost, but a roll call was forced, which took the greater part of a day and Lewis' appointive power was sustained by a majority of 157 votes...
...battle of autocracy and pay the bill in blood and treasure and prestige. In this war they have no sympathizers even among neutrals. The enilghtened opinion of the whole world has turned against the two kaisers as it did against Napoleon III when he sought to make himself the autocrat of Europe...
...racer," declared the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table one morning, "is most cultivated and reaches his greatest perfection in England...
...speeches and actions he has abnegated the principles of our Constitution. He should be, to American eyes, a tyrant, a despot, almost an oriental sultan in his arrogant absolutism. But it seems that for the rank and file of humanity the end justifies the means. If the autocrat succeed, who shall gain-say his right to rule? So long as it is Benito who holds the sceptre, "bene...
...knight errant in the cause of righteousness and organized labor (American Federation plan), he scarcely lets a week go by without attacking some organization as being inimical to the United States and the Federation. Last week he denounced Samuel M. Vauclain of the Baldwin Locomotive Works as a feudal autocrat because he espoused the Open Shop; the week before he issued a manifesto against the Charles Garland Fund for being devoted to radical causes; the week before that he warned the public that labor banks were no solution of the Labor problem and that Capitalists needn't think...