Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while Deputies roared out "Slavu Mu! Glory to Him!" at every mention of the dead King. Eyes kept turning from the pale Prince Regent to another figure behind him. grizzled, bristling General Pera Zivkovitch, by tradition the man who let the murderers of Alexander Obrenovitch into the royal palace, virtual dictator for three years under Alexander of Jugoslavia, the strongest, the most hated man in the kingdom, and as Commander of the Royal Guard, proprietor of a well-drilled, well-equipped army-within-an-army of nearly...
Also from London came the voice of Frau Mathilde Wurm, 13 years a Socialist member of the Reichstag, a Jewess, now living in Great Britain in virtual exile. Speaking in English, she told the Conference that Hitlerism, having wooed the support of German women with promises of liberation from underpaid drudgery, betrayed them by expelling women from civil and professional life, and by handing them over to farm and household labor without...
...Pont de Nemours & Co., stepped into the white marble caucus room of the Senate Office Building to give their testimony. A square-jawed fact: the du Pont company had made a profit of $250,000,000 during the War, paid 195% in dividends, and salted its winnings away in virtual control of General Motors...
...Crass Infraction." Reichsbischof Ludwig Müller, the blatant German Army chaplain promoted by Adolf Hitler to the post of virtual dictator of German Protestantism (TIME, Oct. 9), denounced foreign Protestant pastors for criticizing his autocratic policies last week, flayed them for "seeing with the eyes of a poorly or falsely informed foreign world." Next day, in a suit to test Reichsbischof Müller's January decree on which he based his Protestant dictatorship, the Berlin High Court declared: "The decree undoubtedly is invalid, and thus everything is null and void that the Reichsbischof has done on the strength...
...call in French troops and the fear of Germany that he may do so. If the plebiscite is to be held on schedule, declared President Knox, the League must act on his repeated request to be supplied with at least 2,000 armed men to put the Saar under virtual martial law while the vote is taken...