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...Caine, a four-piper destroyer converted to minesweeping, was a phony and misfit skipper. A pallid little man turning to fat, one of the low men in his Annapolis class, he could handle neither his ship, his officers nor his men. He was a martinet, a liar, a petty tyrant, and, when the chips were down in combat, a coward. On escort duty in the Pacific, all this became painfully obvious, even to a raw ensign like Willie Keith. When a typhoon hit the fleet in the Philippine Sea in December 1944, it became plain to all hands that Captain...
...press in Argentina." The Washington Post added: "All over the free world the censor is beating out the newspaperman. One light after the other is being extinguished . . . Is this an internal matter?" The Chicago Sun-Times joined with the Sydney, Australia Morning Herald in calling Perón a tyrant. The Richmond Times-Dispatch saw him as "an unscrupulous demagogue who would not hesitate to play ball with Stalin," while the Dallas News prophesied that he "can exist only by a constant accretion of power. This, in the end, will kill...
...TYRANT FROM ILLINOIS (248 pp.)-Blair Bolles-Norton...
...Cannon set himself to use every power of the Speaker's office to stifle the reforms demanded by younger men. From liberals of that time he earned a new and bitter nickname: "Cannon the Strangler." The debatable thesis of Blair Bolles's Tyrant from Illinois is that Cannon was the conservative grit that irritated a goodly part of the next generation into "progressive" politics and produced the first pearly concepts of the welfare state...
...said that only "a direct, immediate, and personal relationship with God" can put a man "beyond the reach of any human tyrant." Bishop Oxnam stressed that in the present world crisis, man's faith is being severely tested...