Word: bailiwicks
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With the Reichstag disbanded and Germany under the "veiled dictatorship" of Chancellor Heinrich Brüning (TIME, July 28, Aug. 4), with every German politician touring his bailiwick in preparation for the general election Sept. 14, a new political party was organized in Germany last week...
Senator Giovanni Agnelli, president of the great Fiat works at Milan (the Mussolini family bailiwick) announced...
...Stock Exchange will be crushed; the most they can hope for is elevation to the post of rector in a quiet country parsonage, where they can continue to pay their financial reverence and reap the rewards of honest labor by selling bonds to the inhabitants of the rural bailiwick...
Anyone who doubts this should have a confidential Scotch & soda before the hearth with Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, who was Governor of Bombay (a major Gandhi bailiwick) from 1918 through 1923, and was later famed in Egypt for the iron, ruthless hand with which he ruled that "Independent" kingdom as British High Commissioner (TIME...
Returning to the local bailiwick, the University team meets in the first fortnight four or five comparatively weak teams, before it swings into real action the first week...