Word: domain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mike never moulded any policy here. But roaming his Soldiers Field domain, and particularly the Briggs Cage and Stadium environs, he added a sort of "most unforgettable character" dignity to the unromantic job of groundskeeper. Clad in blue dungarees with long blue sleeves sticking out, rubbers over his shoes and an old golfing cap perched on a white thatch, he moved around mostly in the background...
...showed Tibet as independent and, they gravely protested, was it not internationally recognized that Tibet is a part of China? The map was hastily changed; the poker-faced expressions of the Tibetans, who had journeyed 21 days by foot, pony, train and plane from their mountain-rimmed domain, changed to amused indulgence. When Madame Karim el Sayid, a young and buxom Egyptian, opposed Jewish immigration to Palestine, the five delegates from Palestine's Hebrew University walked...
...week's end, Secretary Marshall was still checking up on the mechanics of his sprawling domain. But he had already laid some fears and raised some hopes. He made it clear that there would be no invasion of the department by the military. He approved immediate study of a "planning board" under the Secretary to 1) develop overall U.S. policy, 2) see that all divisions of the department conform to that policy. He indicated clearly that his object was not sweeping reorganization of the statute-ridden State structure, but changes to make the present setup work. Said one awed...
...three civilian secretaries who governed the Army, the Navy and the Air Force, although not members of the Cabinet, would have the right to take up any problems in their own domain directly with the President...
...heavier and hopefully wiser after five years on the job, Rexford Guy Tugwell left the turbulent Puerto Rican governorship last September and retired to the peace & quiet of Chicago. As professor of political science at the University of Chicago he no longer had 2,000,000 citizens in his domain nor a 70 ft. by 30 ft. gubernatorial bedroom at his disposal. But he had time at last to review his Puerto Rican record and his relations with Franklin Roosevelt, who sent him there...