Word: bailiwick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seen from the air, this go-square mi. patch looks like one sprawling bailiwick, set in the flat expanses of citrus groves, bean and pepper and tomato fields that extend southward to the swampy Everglades. Actually it is divided into three parts. There are 1) the residential suburbs: Hialeah, Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, South Miami (where many a homeowner last week had moved into his garage-apartment, rented his house for the winter season); 2) the city of Miami, lovely in segments but raw-ugly in sum, with its own tolerant government and its flamboyant, perennial "reform" Mayor...
...number of Autry fans, however, when added up, is colossal. Recently, on a tour of Great Britain, where he was living proof of the fond British belief that the U. S. is still quite woolly, he outdid Gracie Fields's attendance records in her own bailiwick, in Dublin paraded before 750,000. In the Motion Picture Herald's, annual Exhibitors' Ten Best for 1939, Autry was top Western star for the third straight year, a record made phenomenal by the fact that his pictures rarely if ever have hit the big, first-run theatres, but pile...
...Communist Party is a best-seller in Russia, just as Hitler's turgid but more interesting Mem Kampf outsells all secular volumes in Germany. He goes in for Nazi-like plebiscites. Hitler won his 1938 election by 99.08% of the voters; Stalin polls 115% in his own Moscow bailiwick. Stalin's photograph became the icon of the new State, whose religion is Communism...