Word: bailiwicks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...pinkos." Inside the academic fold, more subtle pressures from administrators and alumni boards have often forced teachers to restrain their feelings about academic freedom in order to retain their jobs. Tactically compelled to cooperate with legislative committees, the academic community has, nevertheless, found new strength within its own bailiwick. The recent action of prominent professors, three of them from Harvard, in professionally boycotting the University of Washington, is an example of the power self-respecting professors still have to protect their freedom from inner attacks, which are far more insidious than Congressional investigations...
...must have solidarity," he said, and decreed another six months. If any of the foundrymen felt sorry for Hewitt, they were even more concerned not to defy Boyce. Shop Steward Boyce-who made a trip to Moscow last year, but denies that he is a Communist-runs his little bailiwick ruthlessly. Hewitt's own union said: "Officially we don't know the situation exists." His employers echoed: "It's a matter for the men." Said Boyce flatly: "It's none of the public's business...
...Premier Papagos and steer Greece on to a neutralist foreign policy. At week's end Papagos decided that the revenge of General Katsotas had gone far enough: the new mayor of Athens, a Papagos spokesman sternly warned, would not be tolerated if his office became "a bailiwick for political action and intrigue...