Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After ousting Bukharin the Committee crushingly rebuked two suspected partakers in his heresy: Alexey Ivanovich Rykov, the puppet Prime Minister of the Soviet Union; and Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky, onetime Chairman of the All-Union General Council of Trade Unions. Contrite to the point of tears, Comrades Rykov and Tomsky confessed that they had been "mistaken," were allowed to remain in the Politbureau...
...chief significance of this recent move seems to be as an outgrowth of the pervasive professionalistic tendency, particularly strong in the middle west, toward the increasing power of the coach's position. In the hands of the coach, even an elected captain can often be hardly more than a puppet. The natural outgrowth seems to be in many cases the unnatural appointment of a captain before each game in the same spirit that the coach selects plays against his various opponents...
...Revolution Day - twelfth anniversary of proletarian conquest. In the once Imperial Theatre the Soviet of Moscow had met to jubilate. On the platform stood a nervous peasant, Comrade Michael Son-of-Ivan Kalinin, the puppet President of Russia. He started uneasily when someone shouted. "Is Stalin sick or well?" He looked as though he would like to run when the whole hall began to clamor, "Tell us! Sick or well? We demand to know...
...will not last 25 years. I promise you that!" While Mme. Garzouzi spoke in Manhattan, her countrymen were echoing her words with action. The intense Nationalistic Wafd party ("Egypt for the Egyptians"), violently opposed to the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, forced the resignation of Prime Minister Mohamed Mahmud Pasha, puppet dictator, chief Egyptian negotiator of the Treaty. Plump, passive King Fuad invited neutral Adly Pasha Yeghen, twice Prime Minister, to form a "temporary" cabinet, permitted him to restore the parliamentary regime. The new leader immediately announced that in the coming universal-suffrage elections the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty question would...
Another British puppet, paradoxically more potent than his elder brother Amir Abdullah, is King Feisul of Irak, inventor of a special headdress named after him. Of all the Arab lands in the Near East, melancholy King Feisul's seemed the least perturbed about Jews, though one band of Iraki tribesmen were said to be making their way secretly to Palestine...