Word: ironfistedness
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At week's end Franco abrogated the "right" of Spaniards to move freely about Spain, and suspended the law protecting them from summary arrest and imprisonment. Both rights are largely theoretical in Spain, but their abrogation was a warning by Franco that he has decided to reverse his policy...
Despite wrenching translations and ironfisted Spanish censorship, the show retained a surprising amount of its pace and charm. Spain's top scenic designer, Sigfredo Burman, speckled the mythical isle of Bali Ha'i with miniature lights that blink by night, put ripples in the sea, installed clouds that...
As founder and ironfisted boss of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., Cosmopolite Colonel Sosthenes Behn built a $603 million communications empire that stretches from New Zealand to the Americas to Sweden. With 29 manufacturing companies scattered through 20 nations, Behn was still not satisfied. Since World War II he has put...
In 1900, Sam, Lee and Jake Shubert descended on Manhattan to lease the Herald Square Theater. They had come down from Syracuse to fight the Klaw & Erlanger syndicate's dominance of the U.S. stage. Broadway, chafing at the syndicate's ironfisted control of 1,250 theaters, whooped the...
Brass tacks are what politics is made of, and last week the Democratic high command at Washington got down to them with Frank Hague, perpetual mayor of Jersey City and boss of populous Hudson County. So sharp is the contrast between ironfisted, authoritarian Boss Hague and the libertarian New Deal...