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...decades, the Emperor has maintained control by playing the game of shum-shir (up-down in Amharic), a technique of raising and lowering his subordinates' status so as to maintain their loyalty without letting them become overly powerful. In the same way he balances his security forces against each other. In Eritrea, for example, there are two ranking generals but only one division, a paramilitary force of 5,000 field police to balance the division and a smaller force of home guards to balance the police. The inescapable conclusion is that the Emperor's fear of an internal...
...trial in Addis Ababa). He is, in fact, as close to an absolute ruler as the century will allow. Although he has permitted a Parliament to function for the past twelve years, he alone has the power to choose his Prime Minister. He regularly plays shum-shir-the Ethiopian equivalent of musical chairs-to prevent his top ministers from gaining too much power, and he still serves as his nation's highest court: any subject in the land can appeal his grievances to the Emperor and get a personal hearing. To maintain his authority, he employs...
...Greene, then active as a movie critic, wrote a magazine article which referred to, among other things, her "dimpled depravity." In 1938, Shir ley sued for libel, won a $10,000 settlement...
...Class of 1945: Emanuel Jacob Abrams, John Barnes 3d, Roger Joseph Donahue, John Lowell Gardner, William James McAuliffe Jr., Manton Bradley Metcalf 3d, James Greenbury Nuland, George Spires Pappagianis, Harold Warren Schnaper, Sundel Lazarus Shir, Walter James Whelan, William Harold Wolf...
...Secretary of State who received diplomats in his shir) sleeves and had a secretary, later to become well known, who approved of the innovation??Walter Q. Gresham of Indiana; and his private secretary, who later fined the Standard Oil Co. $22,000,000 and became Dictator of Baseball, was Kenesaw Mountain Landis...