Word: kineticism
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So disturbed and even terrified did Venezuelans become at the dangerous caprices of President Castro, that they welcomed with frenzied enthusiasm a coup d'etat by the then Vice President, General Juan Vicente Gomez. Ever since that day -Dec. 19, 1908-General Gomez has been perfecting his Dictatorship and...
Naturally U. S. financiers approve the activist, acquisitive qualities of Chileans, and have dealt hugely and profitably with nearly all of Chile's able and kinetic dictators. The last of these,' Colonel Carlos Ibanez who is only incidentally President of Chile, has cleverly adopted the Anglo-Saxon technique...
In the Elysee Palace a small golden clock tinkled ten. Jovial, florid Gaston Doumergue was settling contentedly to the digestion of his late presidential dinner. From the clock a low, rapid tik-tik-tik. From the President of France a contented, sleepy sigh. Felicity! Then a door yawned and in...
Two thousand Liberal Delegates cheered these extravagant phrases, mostly for three reasons. First, a Parliamentary election draws nigh, and the Liberals, with only 41 seats in Parliament, must campaign with desperate zeal against Conservatives ("Tories") who hold 412 seats, and the Labor contingent of 157. Second, the death of the...
Even were all these charges true, it might still be argued that Der Unbekannte Diktator deserves well of Czechs and Slovaks. His is the kinetic genius which has so prodigiously expanded young Czechoslovakia's shoe industry that today she exports more footgear than old, easy-going Britain or revamped...