Word: despots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congressman Eddie Crump, "the Red Snapper of Tennessee." who "rode into town at the age of 18 on a bull calf." and remained to become the city's benevolent despot, absolutely controls all city and county offices. Negro Boss is big Bob Church, Oberlin and Harvard-educated with a college-graduate daughter now studying abroad. Church owns white-folks' houses as well as Beale Street property, and outside his offices at No. 392 Beale St. the Negroes staged their own carnival, "The Opening of the Gates of Ham." In and out of such resorts as the "Swreet Mamma...
...stage hits, is a macabre melodrama of a woman's greed. Like the famed Wendel family, the Van Bretts owe their fortune in Manhattan real estate to a simple maxim: "Never sell." Head of the gloomy house of Van Brett is Spinster Victoria (Mary Morris), a malevolent despot who rules the others with a rod of gold. When her half-brother (Kent Taylor) marries a hospital nurse (Evelyn Venable), Victoria determines that this "upper servant" shall never touch Van Brett money...
...give all his time to the Scala. No one thought he would accept when Clarence Mackay asked him to conduct the Philharmonic in 1926. And when he cabled that he would come, great was the trepidation among the musicians. He was a musical god, they had heard, a despot, a devil. He used no score even at rehearsal but he could detect the tiniest flaws. Once in Milan he had smashed an offending violin and a splinter flew up, hit the player in one eye. Toscanini's fabulous memory gave him his first chance to conduct. He had studied...
...worried world hastened to assess the importance of a statistically perfect national revival. A great many have seen fit to rant in humanitarian terminology. The election, so goes the story, was a tragic farce, the picture of a people baring its neck to the heel of a despot. The claim is easily substantiated, but it is a close approach to stupidity to inveigh particularly upon a means when confronted by a commanding fait accompli. For, through one argument or another, Herr Hitler has crushed out party and state lines within Germany. He has, temporarily at least, a nation united behind...
...violence of this criticism is a natural reaction from the attitude which looked to him as the Messiah of the new Capitalism. In the last decade he was the prime example of the benevolent despot of big business, the man who led labor along the path of mild Socialism to the ultimate felicity of two cars in every garage. When the mirage faded, the tendency of the victimized rank and file naturally was to turn to the false leaders, among whom Ford was the foremost. But in reality he was much a victim...