Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Left to Mayor Kenny was a city fairly free of crime and vice (Hague always boasted of his kingdom's purity), and a city with a first-class medical center and maternity hospital. Left to Mayor Kenny also was a city with one of the highest tax rates in the nation, rigged assessments, discouraged businesses, factories deserted by fleeing industry, a city turned into a huge patchwork of slums by political graft. Left to historians was the problem of discovering, if they could, the exact details of how Frank Hague, on a salary never bigger than the mayor...
...carrier, and increased its holdings of Pittston Co., one of the world's largest coal producers. Wall Streeters also gossiped that Young was casting a buying eye on Western Union and American Express Co., which he thought he could get cheap. Both would fit nicely into his transportation kingdom. For landing big fish like these, Bob Young was readying...
...Whittier wrote these lines, he believed, with most of his 19th Century fellow optimists, that mankind was slowly but surely working its way through history to a better world. Science, statecraft and scripture, they thought, were leading men together to the same goal-the establishment of God's kingdom upon earth...
Until men eschew relations with women, men, and the animal kingdom, Social Relations is pertinent of the livelihood and enjoyment of every student. It is a valuable major, be one's future buried in a monastery, in business or the professions, or in the Fiji Islands. It even has something to offer the confirmed hermit, for it provides much enlightenment on conversation with the self...
...most of them still in training but fairly well equipped. They were scattered, however, from Aldershot to Kuala Lumpur. By next year, London expects to have 347,000 men in the British Isles and continental Europe alone. As for immediately available combat divisions, most guesses were that the United Kingdom had two. The Royal Air Force was relatively strong, with an estimated 6,000 planes...