Word: tyrant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since the days of tyrant George III has British Royalty summered at Weymouth. There last week met the paunchy delegates of organized British labor, the Trades Union Congress. Eight years ago their Council frightened the Empire by declaring a general strike, in many respects the most alarming and seditious event in the reign of George V (TIME, May 10. 1926). Last week the T. U. C. met in chastened mood...
...That pamphlet made our Vladimir," his admirers in Sarajevo solemnly declare. "It fired the heart of every brave man amongst us against the tyrant Franz Josef and his heir...
First, most spectacular move was to declare a moratorium for at least two years on amortization payments on $52,000,000 owed U. S. bondholders. This $4,037,000 annual load had been borne faithfully by Tyrant Machado and his successors. It was naturally the most unpopular thing in Cuba and the moratorium instantly fortified Mendieta's government in the hearts of the people. But Mendieta will continue to pay the interest charges of $2,868,000 a year and he will continue to collect all the taxes ordinarily earmarked for amortization payments. The decree affects two loans floated...
...Constitution in a way Suicide Penate had long fought for: 1) by removing civil cases from the jurisdiction of military courts even when constitutional guarantees are suspended; 2) by authorizing the confiscation of the property of men found guilty of misappropriating public funds, especially during the term of Tyrant Machado...
...Penate wanted, the presidency of the Council of State. Penate had .killed himself day after Mendieta appointed De La Cruz. The friends charged the Mendieta Government with veering toward a Fascist dictatorship, charged that De La Cruz had been far too friendly with Tyrant Machado. Finally the echoes of Penate's death forced De La Cruz to hand in his resignation and the political factions again began their wild scrabbling...