Word: bailiwickâ
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...Dewey Hilles, New York's National Committeeman. When Theodore Roosevelt Jr. quit the Assembly in 1921 to go to Washington, Trubee Davison got himself elected to the vacancy. His colleagues found him easy, democratic, willing to work. He was made chairman of the committee on taxation. He kept his bailiwick???the fashionable North Shore of Long Island?friendly and peaceful. Its biggest annual political event still is the Republican clambake on the Davison estate...
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