Word: bailiwick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week many a Cheney journeyed to South Manchester, Conn., met many another Cheney. These multitudinous Cheneys were gathered for the wedding of Frances, daughter of Frank Cheney Jr. to Roger, son of Architect Charles A. Platt. After the wedding the Cheneys drove around the town, inspecting their bailiwick. On their tour of inspection, reflective, antiquarian Cheneys may have mused on the year 1833, when the first Cheney came into contact with the first silkworm cocoon at South Manchester. Since then the town has known many Cheneys, many cocoons. Genealogically-minded Cheneys may have pondered, as they drove about...
Such was the racket worked last week in Hudson County, N. J., bailiwick of Democratic Vice Chairman Frank Hague. Some 200 laborers and families, adherents of Nominees Hoover and Smith stood at adjacent points on a Jersey City street awaiting busses for political picnics. The men-of-the-families had paid $2 for Hoover tickets, $2.50 for Smith tickets. The day lengthened. The sun grew hot. The children made friends, played, squealed, quarreled. The men compared tickets, oaths and boredom. No busses, no picnics came to pass. All, angry, went home...
...week before election day and make the acquaintance of his ward boss and take his orders from him. He will then be a small cog in the machine of his district and state and depending on his ability to deliver the votes and his knowledge of his bailiwick will be promoted...
...Stalin now presides, ruling all Russia. Last week M. Zinoviev molted the last feather of his prestige when he was forced to resign as President of the Third International, the Communist world bureau for subversion, espionage and odd job propaganda. Citizens of Leningrad, once M. Zinoviev's political bailiwick, signalized his utter downfall by changing the name of Zinoviev University to the University of Leningrad...
...silk-stocking wards, which ordinarily the local machine is sure to find opposing it, turned round and voted for Mr. Vare, and that in the whole state, despite the opposition of nearly every newspaper, despite the fact that the Philadelphia machine has little power outside its bailiwick, there were enough votes to give Vare a handsome plurality. It does not seem that Mr. Vare could possibly have been nominated if it had not been for his issue...