Word: feudality
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...England in the 18th and early 19th centuries, the manufacture of cotton goods was a comparatively simple matter. Nearly every town of any importance had its red brick factory owned by a thrifty Yankee who combined the qualities of feudal lord, social mogul, town benefactor. His employees admired him, had simple wants, were content with frugal wages. Raw cotton from the slave states was cheap and plentiful. The New England mills had a virtual monopoly of U. S. textile manufactures. The thrifty Yankee prospered, passed his factory down from generation to generation. The Civil War upset many a factory...
Analyzing the upheavals in China as the inevitable result of the awakening of a national consciousness among the young Chinese, and an effort to throw off feudal bonds, Dr.J. Leighton Stuart, president of Yenching University, said before the Liberal Club last Saturday that the only hope for China was a preservation among the students of a confidence in the possibility of ultimate deliverence of their nation...
...sort of poetic justice Premier Tanaka is himself the son of a poor servant woman who had not even the rank of "honorable concubine" in the household of the onetime feudal lord, Mori. The servant's child displayed such unmistakable quickness and power in mind and body that Lord Mori secured him an appointment to the Military School. Thence he ran through the ranks of officers until, in 1915, Lieutenant General Tanaka was Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff...
...Rollins plant will be a reproduction of a Spanish feudal castle of medieval times, consisting of an elaborate group of buildings of various shapes and sizes? a succession of connected, rambling, balconied structures, with cloistered arcades, battlemented walls, frowning towers and all the appurtenances of the picturesque ancient stronghold faithfully recreated in an admirable, appropriate and practical adaptation to modern college requirements, with an artistic blending with Florida palms, poinsettia and bamboo...
...place and power, Premier Jon Bratiano has held and builded upon both. He and his brother Vintila, and brother-in-law Prince Babu Stirbey (intimate of Queen Marie) control the State. They dominate Rumanian banking, oil, manufactures. Their large estates are worked by peasants in a manner all but feudal. Because they have used their power to systematically exploit Rumania, a tide of public indignation periodically rises, and before it M. Bratiano resigns the Premiership, announces that he has "retired," and proceeds to lie in wait...