Word: meekness
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When other dictators cut the wages of their Government employes they always except the Army & Navy, bulwarks of Dictatordom. Most recent instance was the action of Dictator-President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba. He dared not risk discontent among his lighting men, but slashed the pay of meek civil servants as much as 35%. But last week, in Rome the Original, the One & Only Benito Mussolini announced that every man or woman employed in any capacity by the Italian Government will accept on Dec. 1, 1930 wage cuts as follows...
...Morrow last week prepared to leave Mexico City for New Jersey to begin his Republican campaign for the Senate. He broadcast a farewell to Mexico in which he gave his recipe for successful diplomacy. The Morrow method: 1) look for the likenesses, not the differences, between men; 2) be meek and humble like the publican, not proud and exalted like the pharisee; 3) remember a foreign country also has rights to be defended by its representatives. Declared Ambassador Morrow...
...Democratic primary because he bolted the national ticket in 1928, Demo- crats last week nominated for the Senate John H. Bankhead, Jasper attorney, son of the late Senator John Hollis Bankhead, uncle of voluptuous, London-petted Actress Tallulah Bankhead. The defeated candidate: Frederick Ingate Thompson, Mobile publisher. Judge Benjamin Meek Miller, anti-Klan, won the regular Democratic nomination for Governor. Senator Heflin, who plans to run as an independent Senatorial candidate in November, urged his friends to keep away from the polls last week. The State's normal Democratic primary vote of over 200,000 was reduced to less...
...haired, mild-mannered. He dresses in the traditional rusty-grey frock coat, the wide-brimmed black hat of Bryan and the oldtimers, which helps distinguish him among the more babbitty modern members. In the House his voice assumes a peculiar, almost clerical (but not monotonous) drone. Then he is meek, likes to remind his listeners that his mother was a Quaker. His own faith is the Episcopalian. He drives out of Washington for Sunday services in country churches. He smokes three cigars a day. does not chew, swears privately. His fraternal affiliations: Masons (32nd degree. Knights Templar. Shriner). Rotary...
...which Meyer was capable--through he troubles himself little with archaeological preciseness--the conflict between Thomas a Becket and King Henry II, from the time when the King himself disturbed the serene sway of his chancellor by creating him Archbishop of Canterbury, through the conversion of Becket into a meek exponent of passive resistance, a Mahatma-like figure who led his Saxon beggar-followers with the sign of the Cross. At length he so maddened the King that four Norman nobles took the royal wrath as a pretext for slaughtering this enemy of their oligarchy. The narrator is one John...