Word: district
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...congressional committees on eight major appropriations bills, Senators eager to return home for campaigning grew increasingly restive. Lyndon Johnson had, after all, predicted last year that the session would end before July. By week's end, however, the log jam began to ease as budget requests for the District of Columbia and for new military construction passed the House and another for public works emerged from a House committee...
Last week in Washington's Federal District Court, Shelton was found guilty on the contempt charge by a jury composed of nine whites and three Negroes. The diminished wiz now plans an appeal based on the First, Fifth and 14th Amendments-"same ones the nigras been using...
Still, the government was exerting its influence to ensure a heavy vote: most of the South Vietnamese army was withdrawn from combat and sent to supervise the vote. Vietnamese villagers were led to believe that if they did not vote, they might incur the wrath of district and provincial officials; government pressure was at least as powerful as Communist threats. Said one observer: "There was a general feeling that if they didn't vote, it would hurt them later." It would, but in more subtle ways than government reprisals...
Nebraska's Bellevue district, near Omaha, has refused to let teachers break contracts until replacements are found. Districts in Georgia and Massachusetts have turned to what they call "two for one" or "platoon" systems, in which two teachers, often housewives with degrees, are hired for each vacancy and each works only half a day. Maine is seeking teachers from Tunisia, Greece and Turkey in a "reverse Peace Corps...
...lawyers attended Ole Miss; and there are enough of the school's grads in the Mississippi senate to control all legislation in the state. Ole Miss produced eight of the nine members of the Mississippi Supreme Court and all three of the state's federal district judges, including Claude F. Clayton, who last week firmly ordered do-nothing police to protect Negro schoolchildren from savage white mobs in Grenada...