Word: dynasticism
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The dynastic rivalries among the Army, Navy and Air Force after World War II prompted President Truman to unify the services under a Secretary of Defense. Old Soldier Eisenhower stripped the individual service secretaries of their power to deploy troops. Later, the exigent Robert McNamara took command of all departmental...
Sir: America is not sick. It is not just this country that is violent, or society in the 1960s. Pointing fingers at the U.S. is, seemingly, a favorite pastime in today's world, and the people from other countries who do it forget or ignore their own past. One...
Both anti-Administration candidates, however, publicly placed a good deal of stock in the Oregon vote--even though Oregon lacked large black and lower-middle class elements of the Democratic coalition. After Kennedy lost, he hinted broadly that he would quit this year's campaign if he lost in California...
London's dynastic Hambro family, the world's biggest merchant bankers, started their moneymaking art two centuries ago, when a Hambro sea captain got word that the Queen of Denmark had died in Paris; he promptly cornered the market for crape in Copenhagen. Britain's Baring banking...
But what has happened to the old Confucian tradition of balance, harmony, and tolerance for private variations in faith and custom? The training of bureaucrats who were also humanists, artists and scholars, to carry on the established order, was the major tradition, dominant over most of the centuries, whereas the...