Word: bossdom
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...Dutch-descended Afrikaner is concerned, he is again in the laager, barricaded against a hostile world. Behind him are 300 years of white baasskap (bossdom) in a land he knows is his. His Dutch Reformed Church preaches apartheid, tells him that black men are fit only to be "hewers of wood and drawers of water," and assures him that God is on his side. He lives in isolation from the rest of the world, which he does not understand and he is sure does not understand...
...names may change, but the issue in South African elections is always dismayingly the same-swart gevaar (black danger), wit baaskap (white bossdom), or just plain apartheid. Last week, when South Africa's 1.7 million white voters went to the polls, there was no new term for Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's racism, but both major parties were claiming to be the whitest of the white. So extremist have the nation's politics become, in fact, that Segregationist Verwoerd was even accused of being soft on blacks...
...need of Kennedy's help. Last year Mayor Wagner, whom Buckley helped get elected mayor initially in 1953, fell out with New York's borough bosses, including Buckley. Re-elected to a third term, Wagner vowed to oust Buckley both from the House seat and his Bronx bossdom...
Losing Complacently. In the Republican camp there was smugness of another sort. In a century of highly successful Republican bossdom, just two Democrats had tiptoed into the Statehouse. Since the 1938 debacle of George Earle* and his dazed administration, a succession of Old Guard Republicans had moved, like a procession of pelicans, into the governor's chair, led by Arthur James, whose conservatism extended to his high-button shoes. In 1946 it came the turn of James Duff, a bristle-thatched bird of another feather. Midway in his term, Duff led a coup d'état against Boss...
...protection money" from bootleggers, gamblers, et al. Be that as it may, Boss Crump keeps taxes low, picks good competent men for public office and-unusual in the South-cultivates and delivers a solid block of Negro votes.* Result of this system is that in 30 years of bossdom Edward Crump has had a record of 60 electoral victories, no defeats in Memphis and Shelby County. Since Boss Crump controls some 50,000 votes, more than a quarter of the total necessary to win a Democratic primary in Tennessee where a Democratic nomination is as good as an election...