Word: fiefdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hatcher were white, he would be certain of victory; the machine has made Indiana's second biggest city a Democratic fiefdom for more than 50 years. As a Negro, he must campaign on ability and personality. He has both, and already has firm plans to wipe out the prostitution and gambling that have made "Steel City U.S.A."-as its boosters like to call it-synonymous with vice in a large section of the Midwest. "I hope to give the people of Gary an administration of which they can be proud," Hatcher says without a trace of braggadocio...
...Powell case is whether the House of Representatives had the constitutional right to deny him admission for the specific offenses with which he was charged. While his lawyers raised this issue in federal court last week, Powell himself unexpectedly became the target of a political challenge in his Harlem fiefdom...
...longer. Last week the company's fifth chief, Alfried Krupp, 59, found himself being not only called to strict and public account, but virtually read out of the family fiefdom...
...profit margins thinner year by year, far outstripped its 3.5% sales increase with a 14% rise in earnings to $171 million. To fatten sales as well, Bethlehem is pushing an invasion of the Midwest with a $500 million expansion of its Burns Harbor plant near Chicago, long a virtual fiefdom of Inland Steel...
...longtime leader of the conservative Southern bloc in the House of Representatives, was dispossessed of the seat he has occupied for 35 years. Senator Willis Robertson, 79, like Smith a member of the Byrd organization, was also defeated. And, in the Old Dominion that has been a family fiefdom for 40 years, Harry Flood Byrd Jr., 51, won the nomination for his father's old Senate seat by only 8,300 votes out of 434,000 cast...