Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kennelly, a courtly, white-haired bachelor who made a modest fortune in the warehouse business, had led the Democratic Party through dark days. In 1947, after 14 years of rule, the Nash-Kelly machine's odorous record seemed to be catching up with it. The Democrats, panicky at the possibility of an election defeat, retired aging Ed Kelly as mayor and ran respectable Martin Kennelly as a "reform" candidate. Elected, Kennelly did a fairly good job, but did not satisfy either the reformers or the machine politicians. Last fall he refused to work for or endorse his party...
...real criticism. She thought the debutantes had been rushed through their curtsies too fast: "They ran those girls through just like Ziegfeld Follies girls-with clothes." In a more leisurely era, socially prominent young ladies made their debuts under family auspices. In recent years mass debuts have become the rule, and the modern deb has a commercial sponsor...
Boss William Tweed (1860-71) and his henchmen had fleeced New Yorkers of some $200 million while he was Tammany's head. Boss Richard Croker (1886-1901) continued the Tammany rule that Lincoln Steffens described as "government of the people, by the rascals, for the rich." Boss Charles Murphy was the last successful leader of the old Tammany. When
...Every woman-cook," cried little Red Father Lenin in the first flush of revolution, "can rule the state." But instead the state soon ruled the women, liberating them from the "old household slavery" and giving them equal rights with men only so that they could also carry hods, puddle steel and unload barges. "The hardest-worked sex in the country and perhaps in the world," cried appalled Feminist Perle Mesta last year after seeing her sisters under the shawl in Russia. In 37 years no woman ever sat in the Soviet Politburo. Ana Pauker, onetime Rumanian Foreign Minister...
...Territorial waters two or three decades ago were almost universally recognized as ending three nautical miles out, based on a doctrine, centuries old, that such was the maximum distance a shore-based cannon shot would carry and therefore the greatest enforceable limit. Now each nation makes its own rule...