Word: bailiwicks
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...Philip Snowden, who as Lord Privy Seal now holds a mere sincere. Mr. Chamberlain affects neither the icy monocle of his Peace-Prizing halfbrother, Sir Austen, nor the blatant orchid boutonniere of their late, great father "Old Joe." Neville used to be Lord Mayor of Birmingham, the Chamberlain family bailiwick. Once before he was Chancellor of the Exchequer but so briefly that he never brought in a budget (TIME, April 13). Recently, as Conservative campaign strategist, he rolled up the greatest party ma- jority in British history, won his right to demand the Exchequer as his Cabinet plum. Prime Minister...
...particular to do with Thomas Woodrow Wilson, a great deal to do with Ignace Paderewski. It was there that he landed from a British warship in 1919 while Germans still held the town, to become Poland's first Premier. Poznan has always been a Paderewski, anti-Pilsudski bailiwick. The Wilson unveiling resolved itself into a grand Paderewski jamboree. Dictator Pilsudski and Pianist Paderewski (officially tending his sick wife in Switzerland) both considered it wise to absent themselves. So did General Pershing who had been invited. At the last minute, lest the Paderewskites should stage some really serious demonstration, Dictator...
...have already reached Saigon, and more are being hurried thither from Syria and Morocco. In Paris last week was His Excellency M. Pierre Pasquier, Governor General of French Indo-China, come at the urgent request of the High Colonial Council to discuss native unrest in his Far East bailiwick...
...Mississippi River-towns and cities were frequently "captured" by both Federals and Rebels simultaneously last week-if their official announcements were to be believed. ' The main fighting line, insofar as it existed, was the southern frontier of the great coffee state of Sao Paulo, "Heart of Brazil," bailiwick of President Washington Luis and his ruling clique. It appeared certain that the southern Rebels had not advanced north of this frontier...
...force of Youth at work in Europe is called Fascism in Italy and Hitlerism in Germany!" cried Great Britain's bristling Viscount Rothermere, hurrying back last week from Adolf Hitler's bailiwick at Munich to his roaring London newspresses. "In Britain as yet," he added dolefully, "it [Youth] has no name or organization, but it is working just as strongly here as anywhere! . . . It would be fatal folly to hold it [Youth] back...