Word: bailiwicks
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...Blessed Be . . . Youth!" After such staggering words from the leader of Germany's No. 2 party (the Socialists are No. I), French, German, British papers seethed. Viscount Rothermere, blatant "Hearst of England," who would like to see a dictator (himself) in London, personally visited Munich (Hitler bailiwick) last week, sent glowing cables to his Daily Mail...
...Putsch!" In his Munich bailiwick Herr Hitler roused a jubilant Bavarian crowd to lusty cheers by announcing a "new slogan" for Brown Shirts...
Stronger than most other South American governments is that of President Carlos Ibanez, a dictator so fearless of revolution in his bailiwick that he chose last week to tamper with the drinking habits of Chileans, potent topers...
Blood. News that two months of parleying had been fruitless brought fresh blood spilling in Bombay Presidency, Gandhi bailiwick. Excited mobs again publicly manufactured illegal salt. In a scrimmage between natives and police at Bilashi two citizens were shot dead, six police badly wounded by clubs, brickbats...
...state governments are and will continue for the next four years to be Conservative Republican. Five-and-a-half months ago one José Pereira, hotheaded Republican state deputy in the Parahyba legislature, complained that sufficiently rich political plums were not falling into his lap, retired to his bailiwick, the mountainous city of Princeza on the Parahyba-Pernambuco frontier, and declared that Princeza and its surroundings were a new independent Brazilian state responsible only to the Federal government...