quadrumvirate

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Beneath the top quadrumvirate of Nixon's palace guard and trusted advisers—Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Kissinger and Mitchell—there are many key second-echelon figures.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its program will be emphatically put across by the Attlee-Bevin-Morrison-Greenwood quadrumvirate.

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It was founded as a private banking house in 1883 by the late Charles Crocker, one of the quadrumvirate that built Southern Pacific RR.*

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One of the quietly dramatic aspects of the picture drawn by Authors Alsop & Kintner is how, in the face of the facts told by the cables, the quadrumvirate of policy-makers moved with virtual unanimity.

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Here was not only a loophole for himself in connection with his own subtle side-plays, but also, if the quadrumvirate desired, an excuse for deserting the troublesome fortunes of Hull & Stackpole.

From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore