Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...toil from the board of directors to office boys." Increasingly, during the last two years, have Standard Oil of Indiana and Standard Oil of New Jersey become competitors, invaded each other's territory both in the U. S. and abroad. The New Jersey company is a Rockefeller stronghold. Hence, the result of the Rockefeller-Stewart fight in the Indiana Company may be of far more than man-to-man significance...
...Essex Counties. N. J. Republicans had been 'trying to fasten shame on Boss Hague. They obtained a new election law and challenged some 40,000 names on the heavy registration .'lists', as illegal. The Democrats retaliated -by charging that in Atlantic City, a Re publican stronghold. 2,370 names were il legally registered, including names of dogs, cats, dead men and a pet parrot named "John Talk." Atlantic City's population is some 57,000, of which some 10.000 are schoolchildren. Registrations reached the suspicious total...
...toms beat ceaseless din as Edward of Wales & Party approached, last week, the stronghold of that quaint, Afrlc potentate, H. H. Daudi Chau, the Kabaka of Buganda, East Africa. Though subservient to Great Britain, the Kabaka exercises many a right and power over his own people. Aloof, he resides within a spacious palace, surrounded by a woven fence of elephant grass, two miles in circumference and 15 feet high...
...competition. From the conference, there emerged, tentatively, an agreement. Welshmen said they would not compete in Canada and South America, where U. S. capital is invested in the food packing industry, large user of tin plate. U. S. manufacturers promised to tack away from the European markets, pre-War stronghold of the Welsh...
...Internationale of which the Third (Communist) Internationale was originally a faction until it split off and achieved independence under Nikolai Lenin. The First (Radical) Internationale was organized with the participation of famed Karl Marx and held its first meeting at Manhattan (1868), "because that city was then considered the stronghold of radical thought...