Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bemba tribesmen blasted homemade, muzzle-loading guns into the night. In Lusaka, the capital, representatives from more than 60 nations gathered to watch the lighting of a 6-ft. freedom flame marking the rechristening of Northern Rhodesia as Zambia * and its proclamation as an independent republic within the British Commonwealth. President Kenneth Kaunda tooled around about town in his $11,000 Chrysler Imperial convertible, happily waving to the cheering citizenry. Said he: "At the moment, all is gay-but soon the problems will have to be faced...
...Commonwealth of Massachusetts has seen many political parties come and go--Puritans, tea dampers, and abolitionists. Yet the current, dominant Democratic party is perhaps the strangest of them all, since it is not really a party. Despite the fact that the vast majority of all elected officials are Democrats, a condition that ought to give elections a dreary sameness, the state's politics are among the most confused and chaotic in the nation. This year's election is hardly likely to vary the pattern...
Beyond these simple verities, however, the Commonwealth's politics grow more complicated. Unlike the newly emerged Republicans of a century ago, proud of the success of their party built upon abolition and the Constitution, today's Democrats are united by the simple conviction of its immigrant constituents that the party of the Yankee mill owner-oppressor should be made to suffer. Little else in the way of ideology, binds together the party's members, who range from Goldwater supporters to former ADA chairmen. The Party is basically a combination of ethnic alliances, traditional hatreds and personal feuds followed by hypocrital...
...backroom dealings and factional quarrels. Both the truth and the legend of corruption have aggravated the fiscal crisis. Within the Department of Public Works, proven kickbacks and bribes have in the past wasted valuable tax revenue. More importantly, the image of corruption has frightened many industries from the Commonwealth and has disgusted many capable men who might have otherwise pursued careers in government. As Volpe has noted, Massachusetts pays a huge "corruption...
...Tory." The only member of Wilson's Cabinet to have held senior rank in the last Labor government, Gordon Walker is regarded as a bridge-figure between the academic and union sides of the Labor Party. He was the first Secretary of State to visit all Commonwealth countries...