Word: feudality
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...time these charges were made, Prince Babu Stirbey quietly left Rumania until the incident blew over. Politically Prince Babu is hand in glove with onetime Premier Jon Bratiano whose powerful dynasty has an almost feudal hold on large areas of Rumanian peasant land, as well as upon the principal industrial banks...
Sword-Handy Premier. General Guchi Tanaka is a picturesque, opinionated, vigorous man of the sword who was allowed to enter politics from the Army by imperial decree of the late Tenno Yoshihito† He was born (1863) the third son of a servant attached to the great feudal lord Mori. His evident quickness and superiority of mind gained him the patronage of his lord and he was sent to the Military School, thereafter rising through the ranks until, in 1915, he was a Lieutenant General and Vice Chief of the General Staff...
Significant of conditions in the minor feudal states of Indian princes was a statement, last week, by Director-Professor Heck of the Berlin Zoo: "To explain the enormous number of wild beasts killed by native Indian princes during a single hunt is most simple. On the night before a great hunt the haunts of the beasts of prey, especially lions, are strewn with meats containing morphine. When, next day, the drugged beasts are hunted they prove easy game...
These mountaineers?his feudal retainers?are the true and only stable support of his power. At 16, he succeeded to his late father's duties as Chief; and since the second Balkan War he has gradually assumed an increasingly dominant national position, winning other tribal clans to his support with tact and skill. During the two years of his presidency there have been built 300 bridges and almost 1,000 kilometres of roads?a desperate necessity if Albanian commerce is ever to develop...
...Chang is the surname of two Chinese War Lords: 1) Chang Tso-lin the great lord of Manchuria and North China; 2) Chang Tsung-chang, lord of Shantung, recently driven from Shanghai, feudal adherent of Chang...