Word: district
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outside his home. A second blast, 33 minutes later and eight miles away, blew in the glass front of an office building housing Little Rock Mayor Werner C. Knoop's construction firm. Five minutes later dynamite thrown through a ground-floor window partially wrecked the Little Rock school district's administrative offices, blew out windows in a nearby Carmelite monastery where 14 nuns were asleep...
Protesting loudly, Mboya demanded that other parties be similarly restricted. But Kenya's white rulers pointed to a 1956 emergency decree prohibiting formation of any all-African group that was not confined to a single district or administrative area. Talking darkly of plans to push ahead with his new party in legally disguised forms, Tom Mboya cut to the heart of the issue with the question: Why was it only Africans who were prohibited from organizing on a colony-wide basis? Said he: "We wait to see what action the government now takes against the Indian Congress, the Moslem...
...crusading spirit manifested itself in many ways. The first House of Correction, reform school, and fire cisterns appeared during his five years in office. The red light district retreated before his reforms, and Quincy even took the revolutionary step of establishing a high school for girls. Quincy's pride kept him from remaining in office longer than five years. In the election of 1828 he failed to obtain an absolute majority on either of the first two ballots, and withdrew in a huff from the race...
...National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools (now the National Citizens Council for Better Schools) to throw intelligent criticism instead of brickbats at the schools. When it began, only 17 citizens groups existed in the country. Today's roster: 18,000 local groups in 49 states and the District of Columbia...
...bail on three other federal indictments. Said lanky, tanned Guterma: "I have never been an agent for any foreign government, and I have no intention of being one." Roach and Culpepper also denied the charge, but the Dominican Republic announced that it had filed suit in the U.S. District Court against Guterma and associates for fraudulent misrepresentation, seeks return of the $750,000 it says it paid...