Word: bailiwick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lets them allocate funds for research in neighborhood medical centers. N.F.I.P. forbids its chapters to join in any concerted fund drive, and it refused to guarantee that local commitments would be allowed to run their course. When the A. & R. F. asked the N.F.I.P. to stay out of its bailiwick for at least a year, N.F.I.P. replied: "Individual diseases are not the personal property of individual organizations...
...announcement because the campaign "will not affect our personal friendship in any way." Also in the running: former U.S. Representative Thomas J. Dodd, who tried for the Senate in 1956, felt that the state machine failed to back him, this year has virtually sewed up his own powerful bailiwick of Hartford County (pop. 619,000) and much organizational support, may well mow down both Benton and Bowles...
WASHINGTON, March 14--Poker-faced William Langley, district attorney of Portland, Ore., took the Fifth Amendment before the Senate committee investigating rackets today and refused to testify about gambling and prostitution in his bailiwick...
...seven other members of a special Senate committee were about to start work on a "stupendous" job. Lawyer McClellan was not far wrong. The job: investigating labor racketeering. The starting point: the mighty (1,400,000 members) International Brotherhood of Teamsters and its activities in the Pacific Northwest, home bailiwick of Teamsters' President Dave Beck (who was conspicuous last week by his continued sojourn in Europe). Prospect: the juiciest congressional hearing of the year...
...Wisconsin, resentful farmers were whittling down the G.O.P.'s 1952 margin. Elsewhere Democratic bastions were toppling. Pennsylvania's Democratic Lackawanna County gave Ike an early edge. For the first time in 36 years New Jersey's Hudson County-the late Boss Hague's old bailiwick-went Republican...