Word: despots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...widespread ballot governments as such, and you can logically join one of the two world groups, the Soviets, and in somewhat lesser degree the Fascisti, which [attempt] to push the world back ... to the time when the Pharaoh under the strategy of his Prime Minister, Joseph, became an absolute despot. . . . Any talk of loss of liberty through the monopolistic control of the ether ... is too grotesque to need to be given more than a line in an address like this...
Matter of fact Dr. Irigoyen, though he reaped unpopularity as a senile despot, was famed for his frugality, austerity and tireless (if misdirected) industry?he pig-headedly insisted on reading every bill submitted for his signature...
...Author William J. Locke's latest book. Tombarel, an artist who had not been able to make his hands behave, gave up art for surveying, then became Mayor of Creille, tiny mountain village in the Maritime Alps," not far from Nice. There he ruled supreme, a benevolent despot. Fontenay, an English painter, meets Mayor Tombarel, falls under the spell of his courteous, charm, becomes a frequent visitor, a fast friend. In the shady garden of Tombarel's mountain house or in Fonte-nay's villa at Nice the old Frenchman passes many an hour in wordy reminiscence...