Word: domain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...governor of Formosa last week, "is the mother of reform . . . We've got to try new men and new ideas." Shrewd, capable K. C. Wu, onetime mayor of Shanghai and longtime friend of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, was talking about plans for the administration and defense of his new domain, the rich, 250-mile-long island of Formosa, which had become the last refuge of China's Nationalist government...
...Darkest Africa's crudest black despots.* In 1838 a column of 600 Boers in white covered wagons was trekking northward from the Cape colony into Natal; the bearded Voortrekkers (pioneers), who wanted to get away from the hated British and find new homes in the Zulu domain, asked Dingaan to give them land. The Vulture agreed, if the Voortrekkers would first recover some cattle stolen from him by a hostile tribe. The Boers did so, then went to seal the bargain at a great feast in Dingaan's kraal...
...Fall. Then in 1929, business collapsed. The Democrats seized the chance to launch a new principle: "The forces of government were directed, not to the restoration of business alone, but toward the rehabilitation of the suffering and destitute of the entire nation . . . Having no public domain to give away and no other government assets, it would pay for all this by taking money away from those who had it, mainly from Republicans and Big Business, and giving it to those who needed...
...opened the book and turned to the preface. "In the field of government operation of utilities generally considered to lie within the domain of private enterprise . . ." He turned quickly to near the middle and found a series of pie-shaped diagrams in rows across the page. He added the percents in one of the pies, found they came to a hundred, and closed the book. Some music would help; he leaned over and turned on the radio...
...Other Way." Shirley told the news according to the strict pressagent-approved code of prominent film personalities: she telephoned Hearst's Louella Parsons, in whose syndicated column Hollywood's private lives pass regularly into the public domain. "Oh, it's not sudden," said Shirley (as related by Louella). "I've been in Palm Springs for six days trying to think out the best thing to do. I didn't want to break up my home and my marriage, but there's no other way. I don't want to hurt John. I want...