Word: bailiwicks
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...tiny Saar, a miniature (1,000 sq. mi.) Ruhr populated by Germans but ruled by functionaries of France, last week freely chose to stay as it is: an "autonomous" bailiwick attached to France...
...contests for Republican district delegates, lost only one city (New Bedford, the bailiwick of Taft's state chairman, Newspaper Publisher Basil Brewer). Of the ten delegates-at-large, at least two were for Eisenhower. That made the count: 29 for Ike, three for Taft, six uncommitted. When the word reached
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...