Word: caesarism
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...chief of state could find a man on whose mind was imprinted, as if on animated microfilm, all the books by and about Clausewitz, Napoleon, Lee, Caesar, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Sun Tzu of China and the rest of the great military theorists and practitioners, then the chief of state would be a fool to buy the books. Joseph Stalin has such a man in Boris Shaposhnikov...
Next will come March 15, dreaded more deeply than ever Caesar dreamed. By late spring, Congress will probably enact a withholding tax. By midsummer scarcely a citizen will be left untouched, the golden goose will be laying its Treasury eggs like shad...
...picket line which about-faced Mrs. Roosevelt belonged to the A.F. of L. musician's union, of which James Caesar ("Mussolini") Petrillo (see p. 42) is boss. Because In Time to Come has two minutes of off-stage band music played on a phonograph, the musician's union demanded that four musicians be hired, to sit in the wings. Pay of the four do-nothing musicians would have cost Producer Otto L. Preminger $337.50 a week. Mr. Preminger tried to settle for one musician, at $112.50 a week, but the union would not agree...
...James Caesar Petrillo, boss of the Musicians' Union, decided to allow Sergei Koussevitzky, conductor of the non-union Boston Symphony, to keep a date in New York. Boss Petrillo, relenting after a personal plea from "a great humanitarian," Marshall Field III, agreed to let Koussevitzky conduct the New York Philharmonic-Symphony-just this once...
...Julius Caesar, Lord Byron, Columbus, Socrates, Lincoln, Mussolini, P. T. Barnum, Michelangelo, Clark Gable, et al. *To date, Snow White (cost: $1,300,000) has grossed a healthy $7,157,000; Pinocchio is $300,000 shy of its $2,500,000 investment; The Reluctant Dragon has earned a little more than a third of its $686,000 production cost; Fantasia, scheduled for general release soon, is within $500,000 of paying for itself...