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...military dictatorship. Boris buckled down to serious work and within a year made it just plain dictatorship, with the Army very much in the background. He had married Princess Giovanna, daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III, and has carefully borne in mind the example of his powerless father...
...this moment the peace societies are working on the cause of war; economic inequilibrium. The guts of America stink with the putrefaction of the slums and the sharecroppers and the unemployed. President Roosevelt smelled it, felt himself powerless in the face of passive reactionary opposition, and interested the nation in foreign affairs. The effect was good. Americans forgot their own disordered houses in their scurry to see the other fellow's mess. Mussolini and Hitler resorted to the same stunt when they felt themselves powerless. A militarist nation lasts for a few years and dies; the spirit of religion...
...Gestapo from sending "The Lupe" and shady-dealing palace favorite Ernest Udarianu back to the Iron Guard. She is accused of having been directly responsible for the assassination of its Leader and No. 1 Rumanian Fascist, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, he of having looted the Treasury for his royal master. Powerless and apparently in the hands of the Gestapo, Carol last week had time to contemplate that Europe was fast becoming too small for the enemies of the dictators...
...final score was 49 to 23 against the previously invincible Cambridge Crushers, whose passing attack was smothered by the rain and left powerless by Stearus' indiscreetly involving himself in a small pregame celebration...
Rendering the night watchman powerless and working with scientific exactitude, tape measures, and gasoline, they measured out and then burned the initials of their alma mater in the midfield greensward...