Word: cincinnatus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Respect. Shotton, a kind of Flatbush Cincinnatus, was called from his Florida farm last spring by Boss Branch Rickey to take charge of the Dodgers, after Manager Leo Durocher was suspended for a year (TIME, April 21). Shotton, semi-retired after a long career as outfielder, coach, manager and Brooklyn scout, scarcely knew his players' first names. At first he leaned heavily for advice on Stanky and Pitcher Hugh Casey, but now he runs the team by himself. Only once-after the Dodgers had lost four straight to the Cards in June-has Boss Rickey called Shotton into...
...President Lázaro Cárdenas last week announced his intention of resigning as Minister of National Defense. He said that after leaving office, he intended to return to his farm. The press made the obvious comparisons with Rome's Cincinnatus...
...this Cincinnatus, gesturing plough-ward, sent Mexican politics into a storm of conjecture. As long as Cárdenas stayed in the Cabinet of President Manuel Avila Camacho, he would be endorsing the Administration and its political machine. Outside, ploughing or not, he would be free to throw his weight around in next year's presidential election...
...social problems, either domestic or international, and Durant makes the most of hundreds of parallels. Rome, like the U.S.A., discovered the secret of check-&-balance republican government, yet forgot its secret when the clamor of pressure groups broke down the old tradition of limited terms of office. A Cincinnatus, called from his plow to save the State, returned to his farm as soon as the crisis was over. But when Sulla and Julius Caesar violated the precedent, the Republic sank back into the monarchy from which it had sprung...
...margin close: from Oct. 23 to Nov. 4 is only twelve days. Twelve days in which to campaign for a third term; to answer the opposition, to state his own case, to meet the issues, to explain to his fellow countrymen that, if he was not Cincinnatus, he was not Coriolanus either...