Word: bailiwick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...divisions to be awarded the designation Honorary. Over 70% of its men have been wounded in action and have returned; most have been shifted from other crack divisions into this super-crack division. HiD and the other divisions of the Sixth War Area (see map, p. 25) are the bailiwick of brilliant Chen Cheng, who is Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's favorite general...
Fortnight ago, Quinn went to Washington to call on late Boss Bailie's good friend Henry Morgenthau. When he told him about his idea, Morgenthau decided it fell into SEC's bailiwick, called over Jerome Frank, who took along his stock-market regulator, Ganson Purcell, and his investment trust muckraker and regulator, cigar-rotating, handball-playing David Schenker. When Quinn laid the idea on the table, Frank quickly recognized it as one of his fondest...
...LaGuardia darted to pick him up. The Council retired into the long, narrow, oak-paneled Liberal Smoking Room (No. 497), and set about considering the strategic possibilities of eastern Canada and the northeastern U. S. The proposed lease of British bases to the U. S. was largely outside their bailiwick. Asked what he expected of the conference, the Little Flower of Manhattan snapped: "Results...
...jump ahead of the Post and the morning Enquirer. But its field is virtually limited to Cincinnati. In Kentucky, across the Ohio River, the Times-Star (like the Post and Enquirer) publishes a Kentucky edition which is wrapped around the Cincinnati edition. But northern Kentucky is a Democratic bailiwick. There the Times-Star's circulation is only about 18,000, compared to the Democratic Post...
...other U. S. Representatives would like to be: a Congressman who can afford to play statesman. Towheaded, brainy, Democratic Mr. Walter is a director of the Easton National Bank, a successful lawyer who gets along equally well with Bethlehem Steel Corp. and with Bethlehem workers, who abound in his bailiwick. By conviction ("I believe in it") and vote (for TVA, Wagner Act, etc.) he is a confirmed New Dealer...