Word: fiefdoms
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...years past, Congress has been unable-or unwilling-to mount the kind of effort necessary to exercise any real power of review over the FBI while it was Hoover's fiefdom. At the end of the day, Edwards declared that the COINTELPRO episode showed the need for "much stricter oversight of the FBI." Edwards feels that Congress is ready to take on the job, one made politically easier because extremist activity has abated hi recent years. Indeed, the General Accounting Office-Congress's monitoring agency-is already planning to review the domestic spying operations...
Over the years, East St. Louis, a dingy and decaying industrial town on the banks of the Mississippi in southern Illinois, has had more than its share of corruption, racial strife and machine politics. In fact the city (pop. 70,000) has been the virtual fiefdom of a firmly entrenched Democratic machine...
Human Conveyor Belt. Another underworld leader caught in the net was Sukar Narain Bakhia, 37, a 200-lb. illiterate who signs his documents with a thumbprint. He ruled the little town of Daman (formerly Portuguese Damao) south of Bombay like a personal fiefdom. By day Daman was just another sleepy seaside village with the blue Ara bian Sea lapping at its golden beaches...
...most dramatic week in Chicago since the 1968 Democratic Convention. More than that, it also may have been a turning point in political history: the beginning of the end of May or Richard Daley's fiefdom, the last great political machine in America...
...commensurate scale. But after years in office, Moses became, predictably, less and less concerned with building and more and more concerned with power. Governors came and governors went, mayors were able to govern New York City or they were not, but Robert Moses remained in control of the fiefdom he had built...