Word: autocrats
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Some mitigation will come through cooperative management, but effective management must always be more or less autocratic in its application, however the autocrat may be appointed. And we can never make the individual task expressive of the creative instinct by any modification of industrial process that can now be forseen. In short, the man can no longer live in his job. The best part of his life and strength will continue to go to processes almost utterly sterilized of expression of the human spirit...
...government of ours is a government of all the people and not of one man or of some of the people. There must be no question permitted as to the power and authority of the people's government, and we must not forget that whether the instrument is an autocrat or a highly organized minority the control of either would mean the failure of that popular government based on law and order and upon equal rights which Lincoln declared must not perish from the earth...
...German Emperor and his adviser are today viewing the question of peace more from the standpoint of maintaining intact the existing bureaucratic government than from any other angle. It is not that they are in terror of being overwhelmed in the field, but the first care of a autocrat is always for his own skin, and there is no telling what sort of backfire another year of war might start at home. The governing classes in Germany know that dickering with the Bolshevlki is playing with fire so far as their own bureaucratic interests are concerned. --Boston Herald...
...outline the work and control the progress of those teams as a part of his University system. Often this has allowed men of in experience to act most ably as coaches where without the supervision of a responsible head the same men would have groped in the dark. Autocrat as he is supposed to be, it is significant that the selection of his men has invariably been the majority, if not the unanimous, selection of his coaches and the captain. Questions of policy and of selection are always matters openly discussed at coaches' meetings and seldom if ever...
...same chair in the Medical School, which position he held for thirty-five years. Dr. Holmes was not only a doctor, but a good photographer, somewhat of an artist, a far famed poet, wit, and man of letters. His works are familiar to all, the best known being "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," "Elsie Venner," and many short poems...