Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bolivia--President German Busch today abolished constitutional guarantees, dissolved the Congress and set up a totalitarian dictatorship in a drastic move to cope with internal economic and political conditions that threatened Bolivia with bankruptcy and revolution...
Busch, who became Provisional President in July 1937 after the overthrow of Col. David Toro and was elected constitutional head of the country last May, said his dictatorship was neither extreme leftist nor rightist, but "entirely Bolivian" in character...
...Simon & Schuster ($2.75). Most of H. G. Wells's 80 books have pictured the shape of things to come; if nobody knows what the future holds, it is not his fault. In The Holy Terror he sees the same old Wellsian future: the final World War, a world dictatorship, and at last, off in the misty distance, the World State. Many an oldster bores mankind about the past; in The Holy Terror, Wells manages to be dull about things that have not even happened...
Highlighted at the meeting will be a showing of the famous University of Iowa movies, which reveal a striking difference in the behaviour of school children under experimentally controlled conditions of democracy and autocratic dictatorship. Kurt Lewin of Iowa, visiting lecture on Dynamic Psychology, will show and discuss the films...
...Mortimer & Co., who with the backing of U. A. W.'s small but potent Communist faction hoped to capitalize on his great popularity. After some tough talking by Murray & Hillman, Mr. Addes agreed to step aside if they would publicly indicate another choice. Loath to convict themselves of "dictatorship," Murray & Hillman at last pointed to amiable, amenable Provisional President Thomas, whom they had upped from a vice-presidency after Homer Martin seceded. Result: fewer dogs were left to fight over the bones...