Word: militarist
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...Three Americans, three Hungarians, three Russians and an Italian will next year take seats left vacant by ten men in the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. One of them, First 'Cellist Alfred Wallenstein, descends from the famed militarist immortalized by Schiller...
...garage-owner-how he met Margaret Harting, the daughter of a pacifist lecturer, and loved her. Then duty called. Someone had been assassinated. He returned to Clavery and met (a) the villain, Michael, would-be usurper of the throne, whom he shoots for the mad dog of a militarist he is; (b) Princess Helen of Saevia whom he loves, and marries, without any regrets for the U. S. girl. As a novel, The King Who Was a King is thus unconventional in form. The fact that it is the author's description of a possible film, gives the story...
...Nationalist troops against a rebel army of 100,000 strongly entrenched. In the enemy camp it was believed that President Chiang could not count on the support of Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world (see p. 30), and that the strong militarist clique in Canton had definitely sided against the Nationalist Government. How Canton was brought suddenly to heel last week by President Chiang will not soon be known with certainty; but quite possibly huge bribes turned the trick, as they often do in China, for it is known that the Treasury...
Royal Murder. Despite the Dictator-King's democratic remarks, he has appointed Leader of The White Hand General Zivkovitch his Prime Minister. How likely it is that this ruthless militarist will promote democracy appears from his dark record. He was the spruce young lieutenant charged with the personal safety of King Alexander Obrenovitch and Queen Draga, in 1903, when they were foully murdered in the royal bedroom of the old palace at Belgrade...
...avowed monarchist, nationalist, militarist, his influence is feared by many a German Republican. When he bought UFA's 130 theatres, in 1927, Republicans openly charged he would change UFA into an organ of nationalist propaganda. In 1926, his newspapers groomed him for the dictatorship of Germany, a move which came to an end abruptly with a police search of his offices...