Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubted that more blood would be spilled before Brazil's millions chose a legal president in the elections which now seemed assured by September. That the blood might be held to a minimum, President Vargas installed Strongman João Alberto Lins de Barros as Chief of Police...
Greece had chosen a Regent,* Archbishop Damaskinos (TIME, Jan. 8). The Archbishop chose as Premier Greece's No. 1 kingbreaker, fresh from eleven years of exile in, France. Some Greeks were pleased. They remembered Plastiras as the democratic strongman who helped depose King Constantine in 1922, King George II the following year. Other Greeks were disappointed. They remembered Plastiras' unsuccessful attempt to seize the Government...
...break with the Axis. But some of the Rightists are anti-Axis, too, and approve Foreign Minister Ernesto Barros Jarpa's recent cautious statement that Chile is "non-belligerent" on the side of the U.S. What all Rightists chiefly want is to see internal splits healed along strongman. Rightist lines. And cold, hawk-nosed President Rios looked like their...
...Strongman Frank Berst of the New York Athletic Club: the weight-throwing championship of the Amateur Athletic Union; heaving the 56-lb. weight 39 ft., 3¼ in. to burst the Amateur record set by mighty Pat McDonald back in 1911; at New York City's Triborough Stadium. Only other record-breaking performer among the 360 senior track & fieldmen was San Francisco's Cornelius Warmerdam, first and only pole vaulter ever to clear 15 ft. (he has done it 26 times). Though his best vault of the day was five inches under his world's record...
Then the German Army ripped through France. The Germans lined the road on the French side of the Hendaye bridge with tanks and motorized equipment to a depth of a mile and a half. This implied threat and, even more, the influence of his strongman brother-in-law, Ramón Serrano Suñer, led Franco to change his mind...