Word: feudally
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...spite of their scandalous feudal economics, the princes are useful to Britain as buffers against Indian nationalism and the popular Indian National Congress. Britain's technique, therefore, has been to flatter them with a pretense of needing their advice. The Chamber ot Princes, "a permanent consultative body," which was set up in 1921 to implement the pretense, has had pretty regular annual meetings but has never proved much...
...rich Oklahoma City utilitarian named Hubert Hudson sent him into the fertile, feudal Rio Grande Valley to run three newspapers, the Brownsville Herald, Valley Star (at Harlingen) and Monitor (at Me Allen). When he gave nationwide publicity to a King Ranch mystery, the famed Blanton case (TIME, Dec. 7, 1936), South Texas thought Magee would "bust the Valley wide open." But soon he turned to more prosaic crusades in which his backer was interested: stabilization of the $125,000,000 citrus industry, improvement of the water supply. He became a worker for the Methodist Church...
...troubles between the Jews and Arabs are to a great degree due to a weak and inefficient. British civil administration. Because of these troubles, Zionism, the most progressive force in the Near East, is being subjected to a new Munich to which Chamberlain and the Arab feudal leaders, supported by Italy and Germany, are parties. This is not a necessary or feasible solution. Instead, let the British continue the Mandate, improve their administration, grant government aid to Arab education and health services and strengthen the hand of Arab moderates. Thus they may create a friendly atmosphere in which an expanding...
...hard father to grow up with. Gifted with none of his father's inventive fire, blessed with a great appreciation for the important trivia of living, young Charles Edison spread his share of wild oats around Llewellyn Park, N. J., where the family reigned in feudal quietude. Not until he had labored through Massachusetts Institute of Technology and settled down in the business end of the loosely joined "Edison Industries" did Charles Edison get along really well with Thomas Edison. As Charles gradually took over the management from his father, he completely reorganized Thomas A. Edison...
...novels is no more romantic than decayed teeth. In the broadest terms, his picture of Jefferson's social history is this: Jefferson's men & women of the Civil War generation were strongwilled, ambitious, quixotic, ruined not so much by the War as by their own feudal code; their sons tended to linger long over the achievements of their ancestors as wealth and position slipped away; members of the third generation turned savagely on their parents when they found that the traditions they inherited did not square with the bitter actualities of life. So his books are full...