Word: caesarism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lindbergh to many, has been a flesh and blood incarnation of Solomon, Socrates, Caesar, Columbus, Napoleon, Livingston, Stanley, Washington, Lincoln, all rolled into...
...York City's Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia visited the new $8,000,000 Bronx County Court House, exclaimed: "Why, it reminded me of the palaces of my ancestors, Justinian, Augustus Caesar and Nero. In fact, they did not know so much about splendor-they were just pikers. That building up there -oh, it's just gorgeous. Take the grand jury room, for instance. After sitting there on a ball-bearing throne in luxury that Romans never knew, the juror will go home and say Phooey!' Why, that room is so spacious that no witness will ever come...
...little fellow's pants so that he could look after himself without the aid of his mother, and that has spread and spread until the Secretary of Agriculture has at his command an army bigger than Washington ever had. He has more power than Caesar ever had. He has more power than Napoleon ever had; all without the authority of the Constitution of the United States...
Married. Doris Warner, 21, eldest daughter of Harry M. Warner of cinema's three Warner Bros.; and Mervyn Leroy, 33, Warner director (Little Caesar, Five Star Final, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang); elaborately, in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Father Warner's gift was a sound film of the wedding...
...means omniscient diplomat of Florence, has really given himself an undeservedly bad name, says Author Roeder. In his famed book. The Prince, cynical guide to the arts of governing, Machiavelli "preached what he deplored, and professed what he could not practise." A hero worshipper, he set Caesar Borgia on a pedestal. When his hero proved to be no man of iron, Machiavelli's disillusionment was lifelong...