Word: oppressor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...getting started on the wrong side. To please her flabby, moribund father (Porter Hall), she agrees, in bitter conflict with the latent notability, in her, to lure Gary and his belt full of the people's money into the grasping yellow hands of General Yang, war lord and fiendish oppressor of some unnamed Chinese province. Before this unhappy state of affairs is set aright by a drunken man's knife plunged into the general's belly just before the crack of dawn, pretty faces have to be slapped, bullets to fly, traitors to be betrayed, instruments of torture...
Married. Princess Senije, 27, third sister of King Zog I, Italy's puppet, poker-playing ruler of Albania; and H. R. H. Prince Mehmed-Abid of Turkey, youngest son of Sultan Abdul ("Abdul the Damned") Hamid II, onetime oppressor of Albanians; in Tirana...
...Dealers have privately admitted it is a flop. Untold manufacturers kick about its theory and its practice. The case of Fred Perkins was a shrill public indictment. The success of its enforcement is compared to that of Prohibition. Certain Senators seize every opportunity to denounce it as an oppressor of honest business. Its advocates are few and its critics many. How can its renewal be a certainty or even a possibility...
...greatest foreign ministers. Even your own excellent paper seems hardly to have noticed that a great democratic leader has also died. Surely this must mean more to the immediate future of Europe than the almost unavoidable assassination of one who, for all his virtues, has proved a cruel oppressor of a large Croatian minority. Admittedly a human story is always good news value; admittedly also we are here immeasurably remote from the dangers which beset European nations; but surely such a crude outburst of excessive sentimentality is out of place. We cannot find a serious attempt to put these events...
...myth of Capital as the oppressor rests upon a verbal confusion of Capital with capitalists, a factual confusion ot capitalists with managers, and a misconception of the powers and desires of managers. Material capital does, of course, oppress certain forms of labor (or more truly of mental capital) when a new invention replaces their skill by a machine and requires them to fall back on mere unskilled labor as their offering to purchase the world's goods. But in the long run it is a great aid and weapon of labor...