Word: overlorded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...replied by voting to establish diplomatic relations with "our good friend the Soviet Union." The Palestinian leftists figured that they had Hussein licked-not so much because they dominated Parliament, controlled the streets and enjoyed the covert cooperation of young Army Chief Ali Abu Nuwar, but because Nasser, the overlord of Arab nationalism, was on their side...
Died. Jesse Holman Jones, 82, Texas tycoon, big builder (of Houston skyscrapers), publisher (Houston Chronicle; circ. 596,000), longtime (1932-45) head of Reconstruction Finance Corp., wartime (1940-45) U.S. Secretary of Commerce; in Houston. As overlord of RFC and a dozen other New Deal agencies in the Depression '30s, massive (6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs.), granite-faced Jesse Jones saved many a bank, railroad and factory from disaster, made money for the Government by insisting, with a small-town banker's care, on rock-sound collateral before certifying a federal loan. Jones was dropped by Franklin...
Unflappable Man. In a time of financial crisis, Chancellor of the Exchequer was the most crucial job in the Cabinet. It fell to Rab Butler, and he promptly showed his independence by refusing to let Churchill put an "overlord" above him. The two men still have their differences. Rab's intellectuality grates on the old man, and Butler once confided to a friend: "I believe Winston still thinks of me as a bright young man just down from Cambridge." As opposed to Churchill's inspired high spirits, Butler is, in the words of a friend, "completely unflappable...
...most dangerous of such conspirators are recruited on an ideological basis. The gangster is a lone wolf who has been domesticated by his boss; a rebel against society and morality, he is likely to break into rebellion against his overlord or to crack up under pressure of police questioning. But the American who becomes a Communist spy is not especially likely to have an unstable personality. Indeed, some of them have been able to produce impressive testimony that they seemed to fit very well into the way of life that they were secretly committed to destroy. Among conspirators of this...
Murder. Another doctor, Edmund Leetaru, testified that after the Wehrmacht pushed the Russians back, he served on a commission that investigated Communist executions in Estonia, where the late Andrei Zhdanov was the Red overlord. The commission found some 200 corpses buried in the prison yard in the city of Tartu. Most had been shot in the back of the neck. But "several didn't have any bullet holes at all; their heads had been crushed...