Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...canal which bisects the city. If he has his way, slums will be cleared, a new civic center will rise and the whole city will be spanned by super-express highways already designed by New York's equally energetic Park Commissioner Robert Moses. His opponents call Chep "Little Caesar," "Big Head" and "The Kid Mayor," but they have learned to respect his punch and zing...
...bury the German Caesar but to dispraise each other, Russia and the Western Powers prepared to meet again. Would the four-power Conference of Foreign Ministers write a peace treaty for Germany when they met next week in London? The odds against it were set by one knowledgeable observer at 100 to 1. The chances of a peace treaty with Austria were better: the odds against it were only...
Ever since 313 A.D., when Constantine the Great opened the way for Christianity to become a state religion, men have argued about the line between the things of Caesar and the things of God. This week the relations between church & state stirred several different kinds of Christians in several different ways...
...royalties to a union. The Lea Act, enacted to prevent Petrillo's "coercing" of broadcasting studios (forcing them, among other things, to hire stand-by musicians), had passed its first test in the Supreme Court. Last week in Chicago, a charge of violating the act was filed against Caesar; if convicted, he could be sent to jail for a year...
...Little Caesar left no doubt that he meant to make a showdown fight of it: "I don't know who's going out of business, but I know we're going out of business if we continue making records...