Word: feudal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...UP?Feudal hatreds of the Carolina mountains disappear before a primitive patriotism...
...efforts, created and fostered the movement. Although the Rhineland may be fundamentally German, as Mr. Jentsch says, she has always been far from thoroughly Prussian. In fact until within little more than a half century all of the German states formed merely a loose confederacy of semi-feudal governments. Feuds and jealousies were rife between them and only a powerful and autocratic central government was able finally to bind them into a nation. Hence a separate state in the Rhineland or, in fact, anywhere in Germany would simply be a relapse into a former condition. Certainly the Rhineland does...
...Up?An intense study of the primitive. Carolina mountain folk, mother love, cowardice, feudal hate...
...knight errant in the cause of righteousness and organized labor (American Federation plan), he scarcely lets a week go by without attacking some organization as being inimical to the United States and the Federation. Last week he denounced Samuel M. Vauclain of the Baldwin Locomotive Works as a feudal autocrat because he espoused the Open Shop; the week before he issued a manifesto against the Charles Garland Fund for being devoted to radical causes; the week before that he warned the public that labor banks were no solution of the Labor problem and that Capitalists needn't think...
...Furthermore, these large feudal estates produced only for themselves. The producer and the consumer were the same person, there being no inter-state commerce. We may call this period one of economic stagnation, which continued until about the eleventh century. Gradually out of this rural civilization there sprang up walled towns which became the religious and administrative centers...