Word: facto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...panicked population he became a living symbol of strength even as his ministrations helped some toward their graves. There were some who faithfully stayed when they could have left. Philadelphia's wealthy Mayor Clarkson organized a volunteer committee of citizens who became the city's de facto government, set up an orphanage and a hospital for the poor, brought in food and medicines, cleaned up the filthy streets and buried the dead* -more than 5,000 of the 30,000 or so Philadelphians who had remained. Such men as Merchant Stephen Girard, French Refugee...
When they finally got down to business, friend McNeil explained to friend Cheng that Britain would maintain de facto contact with the Nationalists in Formosa. Cheng and his staff would have three months to vacate the stately embassy in London's Portland Place before the Communists moved in. Then, if they needed sanctuary, the Nationalist representatives might stay on as exiles in Britain...
...true that the State Department always plays along with a de facto government, when it doesn't approve of it. Example: while the U.S. technically recognizes Franco Spain, it sends no ambassador there...