Word: bailiwick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jersey, the pattern was the same. Red-faced, stiff-collared Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City had long been delivering 100,000 pluralities in his Hudson County bailiwick. That was what it took to outvote the Republican suburbs and farmlands. But six years of being at odds with the State House had begun to count. Hague spent money as never before: electioneers got $10 or $20 a day instead of the usual $5. It was not enough. Starved of patronage, outfoxed by voting machines, Hague could deliver only a measly 67,000 plurality in his home county. With another enemy...
...British muscled in on Chicago last week. In the heart of Anglophobe Colonel Robert McCormick's bustling bailiwick they set up a loan exhibition of 62 of Britain's best paintings, by Hogarth, Constable, and Turner. The British Ambassador, Lord Inverchapel, was on hand at Chicago's Art Institute to open the show with a suitably democratic address. Said he: "[These] painters . . . are all of the humble English earth; very earthy, simple folk, men of the people...
...surprising, therefore, that Al McCoy, who is the only member of Coach Dick Harlow's coaching staff remaining around the Holyoke Street bailiwick this summer, should have many interesting things to say about Crimson gridiron prospects for the 1946 season...
Adequate Incentive. Now, Al Browning hopes to perform another minor miracle in Wallace's bailiwick; he expects to make it the two-fisted champion of business in the Administration. He has promised to stay only three months, will probably stay longer if Wallace lives up to his promise to give him a free hand. What he hopes to drive home is that business must have "adequate incentive" to supply the jobs for full employment, i.e., taxes should be further reduced, plant amortization regulations liberalized, etc. He summed up his new job: "Our purpose is to stimulate, not just...
...conference in Havana. TWA and Pennroad bought out Yerex's contract as TACA president for about $100,000, half what he would have received in the eight years the contract still had to run. In return, Yerex agreed not to operate airlines in TACA's Latin American bailiwick for two years. He kept some $3,500,000 in TACA stock and a seat on the board of directors...