Word: feudality
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...Ukraine than in some other parts of Russia. The same, however, cannot be said of Poland, where Ukrainian deputies recently were bold enough to demand autonomy for Galicia. The Nazi agitation for redistribution of land is likely to appeal to impoverished, disenfranchised, long-suffering Galician peasants. The Polish feudal rulers, caught between Naziism in the West and Communism in the East, are more likely, when faced with a final choice, to choose Hitler than Stalin...
Being the front man for a U. S. feudal barony is a job that gives Dick Kleberg plenty of work. For despite certain indications of independence, King is very much a part of the U. S. Its stake in politics may be judged by the fact that a if decline in beef prices shaves $200,000 from the King profits that year, that taxes have more than once exceeded the King payroll...
...pamphlet deriding "The Life & Times of Milord Tydings," picturing his Chesapeake Bay estate (whence Washington clubs and hotels buy 1,000 hens' eggs a day) as a feudal manor and his rich New Deal in-laws, Ambassador & Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, as a royal family...
Jones attacked the "feudal system" now in practice where a student is under the special protection and guiding hand of one man. He said that the present laxity in examinations accounts for many "dull theses" and "dull teachers...
...buying power, the South cannot and will not succeed in establishing successful new industries." Not since Madam Secretary Perkins twitted Dixie on its shoelessness have Southerners taken from Washington such a jolt as came next. The President ascribed part of the South's economic difficulties to old-fashioned feudalism, added that: "When you come down to it, there is little difference between the feudal system and the fascist system. If you believe in the one you lean to the other." Reaction to the President's curt speech by a tobacco-chewing crowd which had expected a few congratulatory...