Word: tyrant
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...triangular red field with one white star). Cuba's Independence Day came & went last week and seldom had Cubans felt less independent. In the eastern provinces of Santa Clara, Camaguey and Oriente rebellion was smoldering precisely as it did 40 years ago when Spain was Cuba's tyrant. Some 2,000 insurrectos were hiding out in the hills at war with the regime of Dictator Gerardo Machado. They were mostly well-horsed, wellarmed, uniformed in blue denim. They fed at any sympathetic farmhouse. In guerrilla bands they were able to swoop on a village, overpower the Rural Guard...
...point in common: a burning desire to take every Machado appointee out and shoot him. Faced with the prosaic necessity of organizing a real government, they were thrown into greatest confusion. They remained locked in conference rooms in Manhattan's Hotel Ansonia, arguing themselves hoarse. Growth of a Tyrant. For a fortnight bellicose Representative Hamilton Fish has been rumbling about U. S. intervention in Cuba and denouncing the backing of the Machado dictatorship by U. S. banks and utility companies as an outrageous example of "dollar diplomacy." Stories of the backing of Dictator Machado by U. S. tycoons...
Constitution Crimped. With the Reichstag fire as his excuse, weary old President Paul von Hindenburg signed a decree giving Chancellor Hitler & Cabinet a tyrant's powers. Totally suspended by this decree are the following seven articles of the German Constitution (some of them already modified by previous laws & decrees...
...arose upon the Senate floor and denounced Halsey, Stuart's financing of Washington real estate in a burst of oratory, bellowing: "In all the ages the tyrant, political, industrial or financial has been the one to suffer the guillotine; and I now warn the Halsey Stuarts, the Dohertys-I warn them all that their power to rob must cease." This attack was centred upon the Wardman Real Estate Properties Inc. holding company for $28,000,000 worth of apartment houses, office buildings and hotels, including famed Wardman Park Hotel...
...shall we find for it? Perhaps this one: superior to other times, inferior to itself. Strong, indeed, and at the same time uncertain of its destiny; proud of its strength and at the same time fearing it." Most of his book is an analytical arraignment of the mass-mind, tyrant of the age. "The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the right of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. As they say in the U. S. : 'to be different is to be indecent...