Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wherever he goes, industrious, well-groomed William Philip Simms, Foreign Editor of the Scripps-Howard press, seems to instill a love of peace, perhaps because he is famed for prophecies of gloom and war. He interviewed Dictator Benito Mussolini month ago and that modern Caesar, instead of growling fresh warning to the world, suggested dovelike that President Roosevelt should arrange an arms limitation conference. Last week Mr. Simms reported that he had seen Premier Leon Blum in Paris. Gazing upon the trees and lawns of Matignon Palace he had heard the gospel of peace preached once more. Europe, declared...
...another factor which the C.I.O. failed to appreciate-national pride. However hostile Ontario is to unionization as such, the introduction of American agitators could not have failed to increase the bitterness. The General Staff of the United Automobile Workers issuing orders for the strike in the manner of a Caesar addressing a colony and Generalissimo Homer Martin flying across the line to give his lieutenants a condescending pat on the back are spectacles that self-respecting Canadians do not tolerate...
...Such history and biography as Montrose, Sir Walter Scott, Julius Caesar, Oliver Cromwell, A History of the Great War, novels such as Greenmantle, Mr. Standfast and best-selling The Thirty-Nine Steps. *At which one of the guests was Katharine Cornell, to whom Mrs. Roosevelt presented the Chi Omega "Achievement Award" (medal...
...presence of Emperor Haile Selassie, a solemn Anglican service for native Ethio pian war dead climaxed when the Dean of Winchester said the Italian people ''have been seized by a spirit of evil of a superhuman nature. . . . The ruler of Italy supposes himself to be a Caesar, but he is the true type of the Assyrian Emperor Antiochus, surnamed 'The Brilliant' and nicknamed 'The Madman...
...election on the platform of dictatorship. . . . Since the great American tradition is freedom and democracy you can bet that our dictator, God help us! will be a great democrat, through whose leadership alone democracy can be realized. And nobody will ever say 'Help to him or 'Ave Caesar' nor will they call him 'Führer' or 'Duce.' But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike blat of 'O. K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaay...