Word: bailiwick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convivial Mayor James Michael Curley at a wedding party for a boyish, promising lieutenant named Maurice J. Tobin in 1932. Last week as James Michael Curley, fresh from the Governor ship of Massachusetts and an unsuccessful campaign for the U. S. Senate, tried to capture his Boston bailiwick for the fourth time, his prediction came bitterly true...
...Confederation of Mexican Workers have barked at Cedillo's heels for months. Their cries of "Fascist" influenced Cardenas in dropping the "Bull of Potosi," General Cedillo, from his Cabinet. Since then, President Cardenas has been trying gingerly to pull Cedillo's political teeth in his home bailiwick. To get the General safely out of Mexico, he offered him the choice of a foreign diplomatic post. "I have no interest in foreign affairs," retorted Cedillo. "I find conditions in Mexico much more interesting...
...disposition 200 soldiers to be sent to Chapingo Agricultural School to stop riots. Should you fail to comply . . . please accept this as my resignation. . . ." The threat failed. Cárdenas replied, "Your resignation has been accepted." General Cedillo hurried his bulk off to the safety of his own bailiwick...
...toughest of "tough cops" in the U. S., according to connoisseurs, is Motorcycle Patrolman John Patrick Connors, whose bailiwick is small, attractive Manchester, Mass. Residents of Cape Ann, among whom the name of Connors is a byword, accuse him of being not only a superfine and arbitrary legalist but a misanthrope who hates automobile drivers. Incorruptible, Policeman Connors has been threatened on at least one occasion by an irate driver with a shotgun, and was once about to be assaulted by a burly victim in the lobby of a motion picture theatre when bystanders intervened. Truck drivers passing through Manchester...
...Toothy Mr. Yin, who looks most of the time like a startled rabbit, is a Chinese with a potent Japanese in-law who became a "general" overnight by so styling himself, and by the grace of Japanese bayonets. He was ruling uneventfully last week in his strategic bailiwick which lies close to Peiping on the north and east, when suddenly his Peace Preservation Corps, every man a Chinese, started using their Japanese weapons against the Japanese garrison at General Yin's capital, Tungchow...