Word: napoleonism
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Died. John Francis ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald, 87, oldtime "Young Napoleon" of Boston ward politics whose shrewd common touch and honeyed rendition of Sweet Adeline made him one of Boston's most influential Irish Democrats, got him elected U.S. Representative for three terms (1895-1901), mayor for two (1906-07; 1910-14); in Boston...
...Napoleon supposedly said that an army marched on its stomach. But in modern war, an army-and a nation at war-rides on its freight cars. In World War II, U.S. railroads hauled 142 million carloads of freight, the biggest cargo lift in history, and barely had enough cars to squeak...
...Haro" (possibly a contraction of "Ha, Rollo") to call the old duke's attention to the new wickedness that stalked the land. In time the Clameur de Haro became the Norman equivalent for a court injunction, a legal demand to stop wrongdoing. The Code Napoleon put Haro out of business in Normandy proper, but in Channel Islands law the Clameur de Haro still had the force of law and "Haro being called, the enterprise must cease...
...Papa," said the boy Leon Blum, "how dare you sell your ware for more money than you paid for it?" There is no record of Papa Blum's answer; of Alsatian Jewish stock, a Parisian merchant in the reign of Napoleon III, he went right on selling laces and ribbons for a tidy profit. But son Leon rebelled against what he later called the dishonesty and decay of bourgeois capitalism...
...Napoleon rightly said that geniuses are like meteors which burn themselves to cast their light upon a century," Eva declaimed to an assembly of railway workers. "That's what Perón does...