Word: bailiwick
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...York who runs the affairs of the most populous and wealthy State, stands the No. 3 political job of the U. S., the job of managing 299 sq. mi. of territory whose importance to civilization has more than once been questioned. The importance of the job if not the bailiwick is undisputed...
...announced last week that he would not negotiate a new contract until U.A.W. agreed to definite penalties for violations by its unruly members. Since the U.A.W. record is held against all C.I.O. unions. John L. Lewis dispatched John Brophy from his own staff to survey Homer Martin's bailiwick...
...Oliveira, to resign his post as Governor of the State and thus qualify himself as a candidate for next year's election. Such treachery to Rio Grande and himself has provoked Getulio Vargas to set up a parliamentary bloc to undermine General Flores da Cunha in his own bailiwick, a process which continued steadily through last week's commotion...
Public Service by a newspaper was best exemplified, the judges thought, by the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette, which went out of its own bailiwick to expose political corruption in Sioux City & environs. Crusading Editor Verne Marshall prodded the legislature and the Woodbury County (Sioux City) grand jury into investigating connivance between law-breakers and officials (TIME, Sept. 30). Result was the conviction of the chairman of the State Liquor Commission for illegally disposing of State liquor seals, suspension of Sioux City's mayor and the resignations under fire of the Woodbury County attorney and public safety commissioner. As higher...
...prime example of his period and place, Noah Webster (1758-1843) was a school-teacher who by zeal and persistence became a Citizen Fixit to the whole U. S. Because he insisted on bursting out of his own bailiwick to mend his neighbors' manners, he was not popular; but before he died the U. S. was proud of him. Even more than his Dictionary his famed blue-backed Speller (which sold nearly 100 million copies before it went out of use) knit U. S. dialects together into one more-or-less standard tongue, poured a patriotic iron tonic into...