Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Captain King rode out with his good friend, Colonel Robert E. Lee, and picked the original acreage is one of the epics of U. S. ranching. The Atwoods to the contrary, the ranch is flourishing mightily today under the dictatorship of good-looking Robert II, a 37-year-old ruler of vast energy. In his eight years' reign he has spent some $2,000,000 on such improvements as building 1,000 miles of new fences, grubbing 15,000 acres clear of mesquite and chaparral to plant them with Rhodes grass from Africa. He is proudest...
...Isidore of Seville, iii 48, we find a long explanation of the sanctions of the tyrant's rule centering around a dictum of the Prophet Hosea "I shall give them a king in my wrath." Gregory the Great, in his commentary on the Book of Job, insists that the ruler, whatever be his weight or fineness, must not only be supported, but reverenced as a limb of God. More, in his Regulae Pastoralis iii 4, he praises David's forbearance with Saul, and ordains that "admonendi sunt subditi, ne praepositorum suorum vitam temere judicent, si quid eos fortasse reprehensibiliter vident...
...Professors Carlyle, in their "Medieval Political Theory in the West," I, 157, trace the doctrine to three causes, the correction of anarchy in the primitive church, the relation of the Church to emperors after Constantine, and the influence of the Old Testament ideas on the sanctity of the ruler. On p. 159, they continue "We may at least reasonably say that the tradition of Israel provided the centre around which such opinion took definite shape and form." Indeed, it is impossible to read the Old Testament and feel that Hitler's autocracy, of single party ballots compounded, would have flourished...
...close approach to stupidity to inveigh particularly upon a means when confronted by a commanding fait accompli. For, through one argument or another, Herr Hitler has crushed out party and state lines within Germany. He has, temporarily at least, a nation united behind him as its sole ruler. And if I read anything into Mr. Hitler's past, it primarily that Mr. Hitler has learned well the requisites of Dictatorship. The permanence of his power, as he well knows, will depend upon a quick consolidation of strength at home, and upon a decisive, jingo stand abroad...
...Reichstag is to become constitutionally and distinctly a council incapable of anything save advice. It is conceivable that the body might vote itself to be separated into functional groups, of the "trade-profession" variety. Mr. Hitler, with his ear well-cocked to the earth, is to be sole ruler. This latter, of course, is true today. But it will be a happy premium against the future to have the Reichstag vote itself out of power...