Word: puppetized
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Military Commissioner Ho, of Shanghai, puppet relative of Lu, whom he represents...
Military Commissioner Ho of Shanghai, puppet relative of Tuchun...
Significance. President Millerand was ousted because he was determined to be an active leader of France and not a puppet President. The Left stated that he was a partisan of the Bloc National and a reactionary. All these allegations were true enough, but President Millerand had offered to cooperate with the Left and there seemed no legal reason for ousting...
...committee of seven was empowered to rule until July 15. The rule, it is said, will be in the interests of the Presidential candidacy of Governor Al Smith. Besides, it will place inimical cartoonists at a disadvantage; they could otherwise display Candidate Smith as a puppet on the string of Tammany's boss...
...report was, however, partly substantiated by evidence from Moscow, received by the British Foreign Office, which purported to prove the Cheka had attempted to "kidnap" the War Lord, presumably for "flirting with the monarchists and plotting to make himself a dictator a la mode under a puppet Tsar." It was not clear whether this report had any connection with his arrest, but the details of the attempted kidnapping...