Word: strongmanism
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...project of Cuba's Army Strongman, Colonel Fulgencio Batista, is his Three-Year Plan, a 20-point New Deal inaugurated last year. Under it he has thus far distributed to indigent farmers well over 300,000 acres of State lands and lands formerly leased to private individuals and companies, constructed some 700 schools where army noncoms act as teachers, restricted the employment of foreigners and imposed price and minimum wage restrictions on the sugar industry. However, the surface of his mass of social, economic-reforms has not been scratched. So extensive are the proposed reforms that cynical oppositionists have...
Last week, dramatically affirming that the Plan still "represents my highest ideals," Strongman Batista suddenly announced that further legislation on it would be "suspended" until after the Presidential elections early next year. Reason for this unexpected move: squat, peasant-born Batista.has engineered the seating of five men in the Presidential chair and now hankers to fill the position himself. The Plan, criticized by a good many Cubans as an attempt to regiment all phases of their national life, is regarded by Boss Batista as too much of a controversial issue to push at the time of an election...
...Harry Bridges' request for a hearing Senator Copeland turned a stony ear remarking: "This is an American committee considering the American merchant marine. We have no place for aliens." Meantime the Senator put on the witness stand the A. F. of L.'s maritime strongman, Joseph P. Ryan, boss of the Port of New York. Burly Mr. Ryan blandly assumed that everyone knew that...
...rifles had been returned at latest dispatches, and Christians were blowing up still more Moslem homes in reprisal for the burning of the airport. The Mohammedan world, familiar with the methods of a Christian whom they called "The Strongman of Bengal" when he was police commissioner of Calcutta, was incensed to learn that Strongman Sir Charles Augustus Tegart is being sent to Palestine. Next they learned that in Daharieh the Christians, not satisfied with dynamiting houses in reprisal for the capture of a few rifles, had levied a collective fine of $10,000 on the whole village. Since the Moslem...
...trivia last week were cease-&-desist orders against: 1) Coolerator Co. of Duluth, Minn, (iceboxes ) for offensive advertising including disparaging observations on electric refrigerators; 2) Tolpin Studios, Inc.. of Chicago for using the word "Limoges" on china which did not come from Limoges. France; and 3) Strongman Robert C. Hoffman of York, Pa. for fraudulent advertising and belittling his competitor, Manhattan's Strongman Charles Atlas (TIME...