Word: feudality
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What Dr. Murchison & colleagues did was done with Occidental rapidity in less than ten days. Between entertainments of feudal courtesy and visits to the great clean mills of Osaka, they persuaded the Japanese textile barons to call an immediate halt on U. S. business, establishing as the quota for this year just 155,000,000 yd. of cotton piece goods, exactly the amount of business booked for U. S. delivery three days preceding the agreement. The surprisingly tractable Japanese further agreed that the situation in 1937 was abnormal, accepted a quota of 100,000,000 yd. for 1938 with...
Father Culbertson struck it rich. He was able to move into a big feudal castle near Grozny. Ely was born in, 1893, Alexander five years later. At 4, Sasha began to study violin. Ely used to practice too, but gave up when people made fun of him for keeping his mouth open. While Sasha was studying arduously at home, Ely Culbertson, then 14, ran away, hobnobbed with anarchists, spent two wretched months in the Tsar's prison...
Such impudent talk from youngsters to the Grand Mufti revealed a still deeper cause of last week's revolt: the crackup of the Arab social hierarchy in Palestine. Jewish development of Palestine has weakened the downtrodden Arab farm workers to the feudal tyranny of their Arab masters, has raised wage and living standards in Palestine, introduced the eight-hour day, encouraged Arab trade-unions. Result: economic liberation of Arab farmers. At bottom the anti-Jewish rage of the Arab landowners, backed by their Bedouin cavalry hordes, was caused by this unexpected social upheaval. But the leaders are willing...
...gallant Colonel deliberately palmed himself off on the assassins as the Premier so that they might kill him and take their departure, his heroic sacrifice was in the normal tradition of the Japanese Samurai who inherits the fanatical feudal duty of dying willingly in case of need to save his superior. It was not clear this week, and it may never be clear, exactly how this most amazing mistaken-identity-murder occurred, but it did become clear that Premier Okada secreted himself first in a steel cabinet and later among kitchen wenches...
...your people. You, the nobles, clergy & their partisans, took English gold & passed over to the enemy in 1814 & 15, taking up once more arms against your country & betrayed him who had befriended you. And you allowed the foreigner, being held on the throne by their bayonets & restored to your feudal privileges, to camp in France, despoil Paris of its riches & treasures, while you shot the brave Republicans or left them to starve. Would you not like to do with those that disagree with you, as la Maintenon & her Jesuit allies did when they exiled the Huguenots, sending them to found...