Word: dictatorships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the return of the Pudding Show to the Cambridge stage, an example of Union dictatorship that has threatened to undermine the financial resources of the production was revealed yesterday...
...rent houses for next to nothing by paying their landlords at the pre-War rate in the pre-War currency of Imperial Austria, now worth less than half of its former value. It is not news that Catholic War Minister Karl Vaugoin openly advocates the proclamation of a Fascist Dictatorship, while Communist Otto Bauer, onetime Foreign Minister, is quite as eager to proclaim a Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Finally there is not space in which to note that Wall Street is inclined to sell distinctly short on Austria-as is shown by the fact that it has recently proved impossible...
...Europe especially are tiring of this excitement, so the Communistic party in Russia has decided to purge itself of the young moderns and take up her interrupted liaison with the more substantial Madame Prosperity. Spain is more abrupt, and has threatened to imprison all students who attack the existing dictatorship...
Another significant development of last week was King Alfonso's flat refusal to receive a deputation of three former Prime Ministers,* who asked for an audience in order that they might jointly urge upon His Majesty "the imperative need for some modification of the dictatorship." They were informed by the palace majordomo, the Duque de Miranda, that "the King is loath to intervene in the present situation...
Professor Gaetano Salvemini, a leading and well-informed opponent of the Fascist dictatorship in Italy, will speak at 12 o'clock, today and Friday, and at 4 o'clock tomorrow in the New Lecture Hall on "The History of Italy from 1870 to 1914." These lectures will be given in History...