Word: caesarism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name entered in the Democratic primaries voted last fortnight (TIME, Oct. 2). He preferred to retire to a $50,000-a-year bank job. He was offered the top place on a Fusion ticket to oust Tammany from the City Hall in next month's elections. Like Caesar, Joseph McKee for the third time waved away his honors. It therefore surprised many of his fellow citizens, disgusted many more, and dismayed both Fusion and Tammany when, last week, after a fortnight's indecision culminating in a 48-hour period during which three appointments were made and broken with...
...Walter Hagen, touring Scotland with young Densmore Shute, new British Open golf champion: three course records in three days; at Kingussie (64), Pitpochry (65), Inverness (64). ¶ Mrs. Dodge Sloane's Caesar's Ghost, shrewdly ridden by Jockey Dominick Bellizzi: the Saratoga Handicap in which Equipoise, favorite despite being assigned a weight impost of 142 lb., was scratched. ¶ William Miller, famed sculler of the Pennsylvania Athletic Club: his fourth U. S. singles championship in a row (a record); by one length over his clubmate, Al Vogt, in the challenge round of the National Association of Oarsmen...
...student who contemplates graduate work in English or who plans to take 3b, Mr. Kittredge's course in Beowulf, 3a is indispensable. To complete one's study of Old English with it, however, is analogous to leaving Latin with Caesar. It is an elementary course concerned mainly with the reading of prose varied by the often delightful and always illuminating comments of Mr. Magoun. The grammar, one of the simplest, is covered at almost breakneck speed and the reading begun before the student has mastered more than the demonstrative paradigm and the representative strong verbs. That reading consists largely...
Once upon a time two brothers. Caesar and Moses Cone, founded a Proximity Manufacturing Co. in Greensboro, N. C. Proximity prospered, gave birth to three cotton mills: Proximity, Revolution and White Oak. To take care of his employes Caesar Cone presently founded the Textile Bank for the savings of his employes. Time passed. Caesar and Moses Cone died. Textile Bank was absorbed, became a branch of North Carolina Bank & Trust...
...tribute to his memory, the members of the family of Caesar Cone have decided to see that all depositors in the Textile Bank and its successor, the Textile Branch . . . shall receive full payment of the balances to which they are entitled...