Word: fiefdoms
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...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...
...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...
...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...