Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Central States Drivers Council, for which he talked contract for over-the-road drivers of twelve states. This kind of power was there for any aggressive man to grab. International President Dan Tobin, growing ineffectual after more than 30 years in office, was little more than a figurehead ruler of a vast, decentralized realm of baronies. In the Far West a redheaded baron named Dave Beck was already capitalizing on organizational weaknesses that fairly cried for a strong hand; stealthily Beck's hand reached out. In the Midwest roughhousing, baby-faced Hoffa was doing the same. He got caught...
...often confused with, Malaya's newly elected paramount ruler, His Majesty Tuanku Abdul Rahman...
...after father on a Japanese farm is the eldest son (younger sons usually leave home as soon as they are wed because they stand little chance of getting anything from father's estate after big brother is through with it). After him comes mother, who is the real ruler of the roost. At the bottom of the list cringes the daughter-in-law, or oyome...
...republican France ruled Morocco. Paris discouraged the Sultan from calling himself King: it hardly seemed proper for a King to be accountable to a mere President. Last week independent Morocco informed the world that Morocco is henceforth a kingdom and that the proper title for addressing its wealthy ruler is "His Majesty Mohammed V, El Malik [King] of Morocco...
...famed Lex Krupp, giving the Krupps the privilege henceforth to name one successor as the sole owner of the empire. He would arrange substantial allowances for the rest of the family, among whom stock had previously been split. Gustav stepped down, and Alfried, a sensitive, retiring young man. became ruler of the vast Krupp holdings. For the rest of the war, he left most of the company's operations in the hands of its directors...