Word: feudally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popular New Dealing President, tall, professorial José Maria Velasco Ibarra. But when the Assembly turned to its second task, framing a new constitution, it produced a national crisis. A strong left bloc in the Assembly led by Communist Pedro Saad proposed to change Ecuador's highly feudal economy into a socialist state...
...Georgia would never have thrown off this feudal custom had it not been for its young (37) and energetic Governor Ellis Gibbs Arnall. Having spent two years ridding his state of the influences left by gallus-snapping Gene Talmadge, Governor Arnall jumped into the poll-tax battle with both feet...
...California, 81-year-old Publisher Hearst had moved back into his feudal barony of San Simeon, which had been dark for three years. San Simeon was not what it used to be, for Hearst had been forced to sell 165,000 acres of it to get $2 million he badly needed. But there were still 75,000 acres around the famed Enchanted Hill castle, enough to give him elbow room and privacy...
Central America's politics were even more backward than its feudal economic system. For centuries the millions of illiterate Indians had been ruled by caciques or headmen. Modern caciques adopted the title of "general," set up military despotisms. Central America, which separated from Spain in 1821, fell into five republics shortly after armed Indians revolted, led by a former pig-driver called the Angel Rafael. Ever since, the Ladinos had kept the little countries in turmoil with a meaningless, serial struggle between political ins & outs, usually labeled "Liberals" and "Conservatives...
...chief weaknesses is instability. Reared in Japan's feudal atmosphere, savagely repressed all his life, he is apt to blow up in tight spots, make "banzai" suicide charges, commit harakiri. Victorious, he swells with arrogance and takes his repressions out on helpless prisoners...