Word: bailiwicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amazing talent for public relations. He went to Washington for a friendly chat with SEC officials. He closed, almost symbolically, the Exchange's ''Washington Embassy," a rented mansion from which his predecessor, Richard Whitney, conducted his futile fight against the Securities & Exchange Act. In his own bailiwick President Gay lifted the cloak of surly secrecy which had always surrounded even the most trivial Exchange affairs. He submitted graciously to innumerable interviews. He stumped the land hammering home his simple thesis: the New York Stock Exchange is a market place, nothing more...
...Wingate Weeks. His only son, Sinclair ("Sinkie") Weeks, is president of United-Carr and longtime Republican Mayor of smug Newton, Mass. When not occupied with fasteners, "Sinkie" Weeks bedevils Democratic Governor James M. Curley, whose limousine has twice run down escorting troopers, one of them in "Sinkie's" bailiwick. When Curley denied that he had been personally involved in the Newton crash, "Sinkie" held an investigation, brought forth witnesses who said that they had seen His Excellency in the car. On the side, "Sinkie" Weeks is a director of Boston's First National Bank, president of Reed & Barton...
...finally was transferred to another department and then resigned. Mr. Tugwell has been mentioned as possibly being useful in another part of the government, but there is no need of change now that the codes which he and Mr. Peek quarreled about have been transferred to Mr. Johnson's bailiwick by executive order...
...designed the Soldiers & Sailors monument in Albany, the Civil War Memorial in Philadelphia, the City Club of New York, the McKinley Memorial at Columbus, Ohio. As mural painter he has just completed four large historical panels for the Bronx County Building showing the history of Mayor McKee's bailiwick from its foundation by Patroon Jonas Bronck. As a stage designer he made the maquettes for the U. S. production of Rostand's Chantecler...
...Increased capital expenditures by industry. Chairman was Andrew Wells Robertson (Westinghouse) who told the conference: "Our financial men say the turn is made. They are wise men and I believe them. But when I look around my bailiwick I see no change. We don't come near being in the black figures...