Word: bailiwick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taft men had been expected to win some of the 22 seats in the national convention delation from Kansas, Ike's home state. Their victory at Hays, in Ikeman Carlson's own bailiwick, did not portend a Taft sweep of the Kansas delegation, but it was a sharp illustration of what politicians mean when they say the Taft campaign is "organized...
...Party he runs smack into the powerful antipathy of the conservative Trades Union Congress and Cooperative Union. Right now the trades unions are deeply concerned by Communist attempts to exploit workers' unrest over the sacrifices of rearmament. Last week coal miners in Tonypandy, in Nye Bevan's bailiwick of South Wales, called a mass demonstration against the government and appealed to Bevan to take part. Bevan saw his chance to ingratiate himself with conservatives in his own party. "I refuse," said he, "to partake in a campaign that is Communist-inspired and that threatens to disrupt the unity...
...young lady who wants to go into business, learn the advertising field in all its fascinating facets, and get her economics first hand, the business board stands unchallenged as her bailiwick...
...quasi-respectable, in alliance with a mysterious mastermind of U.S. crime and corruption. The only honest public official in town is Police Captain Robert Mitchum, and though the crooks have had him shifted to a "quiet" district, all the picture's five killings take place in his bailiwick...
...winnowed out of a Pulitzer-prize history by Bernard DeVoto, the story tamely recalls 1950'S Broken Arrow, without its surprise or suspense. Trapper Gable marries a proud Indian maiden (Maria Elena Marques) so he can use her to ease his way into the beaver-rich bailiwick of her grandfather, a Blackfoot chief (played by well-disguised Oldtimer Jack Holt). On the trail, he learns to love and respect her. Their marriage wins the blessing of the Blackfoot ruler and gives them a son. But when one of Gable's men kills the old chief to satisfy...