In May 1920, after evicting striking miners in Red Jacket, some of the Baldwin-Felts men tried to board a train in nearby Matewan but were confronted by the mayor and the chief of police, Sid Hatfield, a former miner, who had family ties to the Hatfields in the feud.
Ford's revival in the 1980s happened under a single non-family boss who combined the jobs of chairman and chief executive.
At Africa's traditional village level, a chief is chosen by the Queen Mother of the royal family to rule for life.
Lee Myung-bak, who became president in 2008, is a former chief executive from within the Hyundai extended family of firms.
He got some help in the summer of 2009 when Emanuele Musini, chief executive of PAQ Gubbio, a family-run Italian truffle company, came across Tartufi Unlimited's website.
Mary MacLeod, chief executive of the NFPI, said a lot more has to be done to make Britain family friendly.
If a family offends gravely against the rules of the tribe, the chief can take their land away and give it to someone else.
In the early 1990s, Ratio's chief executive, Yigal Landau, from a family of infrastructure magnates, and Ligad Rotlevy, whose family textile business goes back 80 years, formed the company to search for oil onshore.
More painfully, says Joe Flies-Away, the chief judge, some have engaged in a kind of reservation shopping, disenrolling from the tribe and using family connections to join others that run casinos and pay monthly dividends.
Sir Peter Fahy, Chief Constable of GMP, said it was a "special place" for the two officers' friends, family and colleagues.
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There is no hope "in the near future" of solving the murders of an Iraqi-born British citizen and his family in the French Alps, a chief prosecutor says.
It's rare to find a dictatorial leader like Thomas Watson Sr. of IBM who could engineer the appointment of his son as chief executive, as he did in 1956 even though the Watson family at the time owned only a small percentage of IBM's stock.
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