Word: bailiwick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coincidence Attorney General Walter D. Van Riper, who had come in to clean out Hague's bailiwick, was being tried last week in Federal Court on embarrassing charges-dealing in black-market gasoline. And Hague's opposition, the "Liberation ticket," had split in mid-campaign. Four of its members were accusing a fifth of selling out to the Boss...
...Blame? General Marshall's press chief, Major General Alexander D. Surles, maintains fairly close liaison from Washington with Allen, Diller, all other public relations officers in the field. But theater PROs get their orders from theater commanders, each of whom is boss in his own bailiwick. Washington would no more think of releasing anything which General Eisenhower had put a block on, or of pulling down anything which General MacArthur had put a balloon to, than it would think of rewriting the Ten Commandments...
...companies into an international stockmarket bubble. But Fairburn, a slower, solider worker, was the man who could almost always beat Kreuger at the match game-at least in the U.S. market, which is all that Mr. Fairburn ever cared much about. In sundry Kreuger forays into Diamond's bailiwick, Fairburn had a way of selling him U.S. match interests at a fancy price, but ending up with Diamond still in the saddle...
Herbert Clark Hoover, fishing tripper, and the Duke of Windsor, his luncheon host in the Duke's Bahaman bailiwick, forthrightly, erectly double-breasted the news camera...
...London, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, questioned by Parliament about the U.S. entry into Britain's Middle Eastern bailiwick, would say no more than that consultation was necessary. British press comment on the U.S.-Arabian pipeline was notably nonexistent. And the U.S. press would have said much more if it could have found out anything...