Word: oligarchize
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...Rose's family, the Fitzgeralds, came to Boston more than a century ago, in the great avalanche of immigration that followed the Irish potato famine. The families prospered, and both grandfathers, John F. ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald and Patrick J. Kennedy, went into Democratic politics-Pat as a backstage oligarch, Honey Fitz as a frock-coated ham who could weep at will at a stranger's wake, made Sweet Adeline his theme song, served three terms in Congress and was a memorable mayor of Boston...
...confidence: he bucked Peru's Roman Catholicism by pushing through an annulment of his 40-year marriage to a long-estranged first wife, then married Clorinda Málaga, 53, his great and good friend for 25 years. The danger of a military coup remains; the pro-oligarch army is uncomfortable in the new atmosphere, but otherwise Prado's course is paying off. He has repressed the Communists and helped nurture a middle class of 350,000 families that is moving into the middle ground between oligarchs and masses...
MANUEL PRADO, 67, candidate of his own personalist party and a former (1939-45) President, is the archetype of the Peruvian oligarch, wealthy from banking, real estate and industry. Sitting amidst the priceless antiques in his mansion, he says: "I am the man of the people...
Both turned out in Buenos Aires' Retiro Park for a mammoth show marking the first anniversary of the purchase of the national railways from their British owners. It was a full-blown Peronista rally, and the speeches had all the flavor of the old oligarch-baiting times. Without bothering to offer proof, Perón's Transport Minister proclaimed that the railways (reported last month to be losing money at the rate of $100 million a year) were now in the black. The boss of the railway unions rose to shout: "If at any time it becomes necessary...
...Machinists. Phil Murray was present sub rosa for a brief few hours Saturday in one of those up-stairs rooms. William Green made his first appearance before any political convention, on the same platform with Walter Reuther at that; Reuther's biting oratory forced this caricature of an oligarch to struggle hard, through fumbling fighting improvisations upon the stale prepared text, for the most "militant" declaration at unionism's dark hour. Labor moguls and a troupe of politicians on the way up typitied by Mayor Hubert Humphrey of Minneapolis and City Council President George Edwards of Detroit provided...