Word: district
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since 1963 as the only woman-and the only Republican-on the eight-member state executive council, an elected body that has almost no powers beyond offering advice to the Governor. Heeding her campaign slogan ("Get a Heckler in Congress"), the voters gave her the nomination in the Tenth District...
...November, Mrs. Heckler must run against Democrat Patrick Henry Harrington, 46, a tough labor lawyer with three terms on the Bristol County board of commissioners behind him. Because of redistricting, the Tenth District now has more registered Democrats than Republicans, and Peggy Heckler will need every ounce of her vigor to hold the constituency for the Republican Party...
...officials, sent in 150 state troopers. Next day, a number of troopers studiously read newspapers a block away while white rowdies broke windows of four cars carrying Negro youngsters to school, chased and beat the occupants. As tension mounted, the Federal Government mercifully stepped in. At Oxford, Miss., U.S. District Judge Claude Clayton issued a restraining order warning Grenada officials to protect the Negro children or face federal contempt charges. With that, the state troopers surrounded the schools to protect Negro students, thereby persuading Negro demonstrators to turn back. Police eventually arrested eight Grenada whites for attacking Negroes...
Unsigned List. Understandably, Howard was anxious to get out of the maximum-security ward. After failing to get satisfaction in state courts, in March of last year, Howard filed a petition in the U.S. District Court, claiming that he was being denied freedom of religion. Cunningham and his assistant testified that they could no longer remember whether or not Howard had asked for religious services, but Judge John Butzner Jr. held that he must have "expressed his desire to hold Muslim religious services"-otherwise there would be no rational explanation for the superintendent's order. Even so, the court...
...federal "Doctors' Bill" that would open the mails to birth control information and devices. Victory came by a more roundabout route. She had ordered a new Japanese pessary sent to an associate, Dr. Hannah Stone, and it was seized by U.S. Customs. In U.S. v. One Package, U.S. District Court Judge Grover Moscowitz dismissed the Government's suit, ordered the package delivered. When, in 1937, Attorney General Homer Cummings announced that the Government would not carry the case to the Supreme Court, the mails were opened for good, although it was not until last year that Connecticut became...