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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1946-1966 MacCarthy C. Sutherland, 1966-1980 Benjamin W. Robertson, 1980 Leroy Fitts, 1980-1981 Thomas E. Parker, 1982-1987 Melvin R. Boone, 1988-1990...
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Drug lord (section Leroy Barnes)
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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Princeton Wordnet dictionary". wordfind.com. Gaines, Larry K.; Miller, Roger LeRoy (2012). Criminal Justice in Action. Wadsworth Publishing. p. 152. ISBN 978-1111835576...
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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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Theodore Roosevelt's Opening Address at the Conference Leroy G. Dorsey, Theodore Roosevelt, Conservation, and the 1908 Governors' Conference...
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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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