Word: fiefdom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brotherhood's $25,000-a-year international president, S. Frank Raftery, 47, who had only recently succeeded to the post that became a family fiefdom during his father's twelve-year tenure, ordered top-level hearings on charges that Wilson was "bringing discredit" on the union. When 300 of Wilson's men showed up carrying protest placards (sample: "Get your hands off our throat"), the hearings petered out. Anything but subdued, the San Francisco firebrand planned to run for international vice president...
...Flung Fiefdoms. Wealthy Princess Chumbhot, 56, who impishly professes to know nothing about banks except that "you keep money in them," recently presided over her first board meeting as chairman of Bangkok's new Asia Trust Bank, Ltd. Across town, Mrs. Somsri Charoenrajapark, 41, revealed plans to build a mammoth combination bowling alley, restaurant and parking garage, thus expanding her existing interests in apartment buildings, supermarkets and the rapidly rising $1,600,000 President Hotel. Mrs. Suni Telan, 44, has just announced that she intends to sell stock in a new holding company that will...
...Hereditary Position?" It may have been the Byrd dynasty's swan song. As Republican Moderate A. Linwood Holton showed by racking up 38% of the vote in this month's gubernatorial election, Virginia is no longer an unchallenged Democratic fiefdom. "Little Harry," in some ways more rigidly conservative than his father, helped master mind the state's "massive resistance" campaign to school desegregation in 1959, is hardly likely to win the increas ingly influential votes of Virginia's Ne groes. If an attractive moderate opposes him in the Senate primary next July, Little Harry, a state...
...unique warmth: along with 3,000 other investors in a syndicate they formed four years ago, they have a 114-year lease on it. The tower is a fitting emblem of their domain, which last week made a major expansion. For an undisclosed sum, the partners bought the entire fiefdom of hotels and movie houses assembled over 47 years by J. (for Junius) Myer Schine...
Signs of Change. In unabashedly reversing himself, Spaak, a canny compromiser of old, was reversing toward reality. For the Europe of 1964 is in flux as never before since World War II -East and West. The war left Eastern Europe in tight military fiefdom to Russia, Western Europe in economic and military dependence upon the U.S., continental Europe thus little more than a no man's land where the outer edges of the two superpowers' spheres of influence menacingly met. No longer. Though the basic postwar pattern remains superimposed across the map of Europe, the nations of Europe...