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    merit instead of political patronage. By the late 1820s, American politics operated on the spoils system, a political patronage practice in which officeholders...
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    Rutherford B. Hayes over control of patronage in New York, Hayes fired Arthur as part of a plan to reform the federal patronage system. In June 1880, the extended...
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  • Donald Leroy Bren (born May 11, 1932) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the chairman and owner of the Irvine Company, a U.S. real estate development...
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  • in the 2007 feature film American Gangster starring Denzel Washington. Leroy Antonio "Nicky" Barnes (born October 15, 1933) was a former drug lord and...
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    listing several other early occurrences Monza no. 9, Bobbio no. 10, see Leroy 1959, p. 322 and Milburn 1988, p. 264 Gurewich 1957, p. 358 but the same...
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    (2005). Renaissance Art. Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. ISBN 0-550-10121-7. Leroy, Thierry (2014). Renaissance florentine (in French). Salvator. ISBN 978-2706711275...
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    Green, Michael (2007). The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears. Hafen, LeRoy R.; Carter, Harvey L. (1982). Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West:...
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