Word: caesarism
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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When the American Federation of Musicians elected James Caesar Petrillo its president (TIME, June 24), U. S. radio and phonograph men thought nervously of Chicago. As longtime boss of the Chicago musicians' local, Jimmie Petrillo has nourished a violent and magnificent dislike for anything that keeps his musicians from getting jobs. Or, at least, from getting pay checks...
...Caesar distrusted Cassius because he had a "lean and hungry look...
...Before the Caesar-men, money collapses. The Imperial Age in every culture alike signifies the end of the politics of mind (rationalism) and money. The powers of the blood, unbroken bodily forces, resume their ancient lordship...
Democracy was cradled in ancient Rome. When Roman democracy lost its purity, that Empire fell. Perhaps this is the beginning of the end for Italy as well-unless the Italian people have the courage to sink their teeth into the fighting arm of their "Sawdust Caesar...
...tough, profane, horny-handed labor boss is James Caesar ("Mussolini") Petrillo, head of the Chicago local of the American Federation of Musicians. The only instrument he ever played was the trumpet. But poorly as he played it, Petrillo's trump has sounded like Gabriel's to many an employer of musicians. No one has fought more fiercely than Petrillo against canned music in theatres, dance halls, on the radio. By forbidding men of his local to make records which might be broadcast, he led a successful nationwide fight to get more musicians employed by broadcasters. Grateful...