Word: dictatorships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while the franc fell-have displayed the acumen of drunkards gambling in a burning saloon. Not to stake all upon forcing some definite program to an issue, was to court more months of mad trifling while the franc collapsed. Moreover a precedent had been established for franc-saving-by-dictatorship only a few days before, when the Belgian Parliament buried its party differences, and all but unanimously conferred dictatorial power upon King Albert (See BELGIUM...
...said that the Klan and other evil interests were trying to put him aud his wife out of office. Dan Moody, on the other hand, says it is well known that he never had any use for the Klan and that the only issue is Jim Ferguson's dictatorship...
...After much urging Marhsal Pilsudski finally accepted the Socialist candidacy. His personal friend and aide, Colonel Winiawa Delugosewski, discussed with correspondents the possibility that the Marshal might be set up as King or Dictator by his almost fanatically loyal followers. Finally the Colonel said: "He will not take the dictatorship, but personally I wish he would...
Whatever you may have against the Fascist regime and the Mussolini dictatorship (if you like) at its very worst, it has never interfered with the personal habits of anyone, and in Italy we don't have to pay for the support of a lot of Izzy Einsteins, nor are we tied to a paternal government's apron-strings in respect of the beverages we want to drink. That may not be much, but it is something...
...have been able to act as dictators with no opposition. For they have remained sufficiently indefinite as a legal entity to prevent attack upon them. Mr. Mencken's point, according to his own words, is to bring them out in the open before a court. Thus their right to dictatorship can be once and for all tested. That he is right in this, few can doubt...