Word: despotically
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...same time Alcoa cut its price, starting Oct. 1, from 17? to 15? a lb. Although Jesse Jones, who announced it, had a part in its timing, the cut itself was part of Alcoa's benevolent-despot policy of cutting prices as production increased. The cut was made timelier by the coolness between Alcoa and newcomer Reynolds Metals Co., each of which distrusts the other's cost-price claims. In any case, it will save the Government about $15,000,000 a year on aluminum...
...could conceive him [Winston Churchill] in a great upheaval, he would be seen emerging in the role of what Bagehot calls 'a Benthamite despot,' dismissing all feudal ideas and legitimist pretensions, sweeping aside all aristocracies, proclaiming the democratic doctrine of the 'greatest happiness of the greatest number' and seating himself astride the storm as the people's Caesar-at once dictator and democrat...
...Jersey approximately $50,000,000 in back taxes and penalties. Several months ago the State Senate passed a bill compromising that sum for $14,250,000. It never got through the Assembly. Last week the reason was known: like C. I. O., the railroads were the victims of the despot of Jersey City...
...erstwhile Republican nominee's remarks were not all velvet. As Dorothy Thompson warns: "This is not the time for calling names," and Mr. Landon's destructive criticism Tuesday evening was neither good taste nor good politics. Granted that Mr. Roosevelt may be a despot reaching for more power, that he is a "changed man" and a turncoat, and that he has certainly made a grave mistake in the Black episode; nevertheless thoughtful voters want to hear more than that just now. Giving the New Deal the raspberry is easy, but mere negations of its principles wil never attract votes...
...demonstrate anew his ceaseless vigilance Harvard's despot sallied forth from his lair, and assisted one Miss Catherine Morison to unveil the new pump with all his oldworld chivalry and eclat...