Word: despots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...there is a great variety in the systems of determining grades. But this variety, far from being the spice of life, is rather the fly in the undergraduate's ointment. Some courses have schemes which insure justice and impartiality. Others, however, make of each section man an arbitrary despot. The natural variation in the rigor of these lieutenants is translated into a vast difference among the standards obtaining within a single course. Distinctions among students of the same merit necessarily follow...
Last week the Book-of-the-Month Club offered Caulaincourt's recently discovered memoirs as its choice for December. Readers found it an extraordinary portrait of a despot at the moment of his greatest eminence and the beginning of his fall, might question its authenticity only because the story of its discovery seemed too pat to be believed. After Napoleon's fall Caulaincourt lived in retirement, was stung to reply when rivals published memoirs that discredited him. His family withheld his exposures, fearing libel, until 1914. During the German invasion the manuscript was walled up in the Caulaincourt...