Word: napoleonism
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...Like Napoleon, Major General Charles Pelot ("Per Schedule") Summerall is associated with the fact that when a piece of artillery hits a soldier it automatically eliminates him from the battle. After Cadet Summerall won his Phi Beta Kappa Key at West Point, the fact was noted when his guns blasted the Philippine insurrectos out of the village of Calamba in 1898, when he smote down four gates of Peking at the time of the Boxer massacres. Later he entered the World War a Colonel, came out a Major General. At Soissons. St. Mihiel, and in the Meuse-Argonne he commanded...
John Lord was with his mother in England after her divorce. He worried and awed his schoolmasters, surpassing at games and studies alike, developing an early admiration for Napoleon and others to whom victory came naturally. He took his successes simply; handled life as easily as his fine body. He had the quality of inoffensive aloofness, coupled with immense vitality and sure purpose...
Below was a large photograph of John North Willys, the "Little Napoleon" of the automotive business (TIME, June 28). He was posed telephoning at his office desk with an extra interoffice telephone and scattered papers denoting the tense executive. The advertisement was intended to convey the idea that Mr. Willys, for the present season, leads the trend of U. S. automobile fashions...
...Against the advice of his brother, the Emperor Francis Joseph, he accepted the Crown of Mexico upon promise of support from Napoleon III, which was not forthcoming. Abandoned, he made a last stand at Queretaro in the spring of 1867, but was captured, court-martialed, executed on June 19 of that year...
...Mexican spirit of which was infused into the antiPapal constitution of 1857 and finally forged into the present constitution of 1917 which specifically declares: "Only a Mexican by birth may be a minister of any religious creed in Mexico." Juarez, while president, not only repelled the attempts of Napoleon III to set up Maximilian of Austria as a Catholic emperor in Mexico (see BELGIUM, p. 13) but banished the Papal Nuncio and all Roman Catholic bishops from Mexico, by decrees if possible more arbitrary than those of President Calles. Yet Juarez died of apoplexy (1872) and the Church of Rome...