Word: saviors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pushing through the Cuban Senate yet another radical constitution. Batista's concern was to harangue Cuba's peasants, farmers, canefield workers, sugar growers and the like, about his own pet form of "dictatorship" which is neither Fascism nor Stalinism, but Batistism. Like all devotees of isms, "The Savior of Cuba" has at least one cranky plank in his platform. This is a scheme to put a 9?-tax on every bag of sugar produced in Cuba and use the proceeds, estimated at $2,000,000 a year, to educate peasant children in rural schools run by Army officers...
Generalissimo Franco this week paid a return call by air on General Mola at Burgos where both appeared on a balcony with the snowy-bearded, inconsequential figurehead of the Revolution, Provisional President Miguel Cabanellas, later prayed in the Cathedral at the shrine of heroic El Cid, Eleventh Century Savior of Spain. Said Mola: "We do not want Spain split by class hatreds. We will stop exploitation of the workers who today are suffering misery born of discontent and stockmarket manipulation. Spain's national economy was ruined by greed...
Your article pictured Mr. Hoan as the highly educated savior of our city; whereas Mr. Shinners is a rough-and-tumble uneducated person who has nothing to recommend him except his hulk. Apparently some seventy or eighty thousand residents of Milwaukee think otherwise It must be a great source of satisfaction to you and to Mayor Hoan that after 20 years of service he was only able to be elected by the skin of his teeth...
When Depression threatened the Metropolitan she undertook another role, became chairman of the tin-cup campaign for which she was roundly publicized as "the savior of the opera." As an active worker for the Opera Guild she has continued to drum up trade for the Metropolitan. Last spring as a reward for all her efforts she was appointed to the Metropolitan's board of directors, made a member of the advisory management committee, both of which positions she intends to retain...
...Harriet has not been long in residence when the outbreaks increase in violence. Fuses are blown, windows smashed, obscene decorations and threats are chalked on the conventual walls; a dummy is found hanging in the chapel. Unable to get to the bottom of the mystery, Harriet sends for her savior, Peter Wimsey, only to learn that he has been sent abroad by an anxious Government. The college jitters get worse as the mysterious campaign grows weekly more sinister. In time's nick Lord Peter arrives. Whether he unmasks the ghost before murder is done, and whether Harriet finally yields...