Word: districting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bills creating a new Federal District in North Carolina, additional Federal District Judges in the Connecticut, Maryland, Western New York, Northern California, Eastern Michigan and Eastern Pennsylvania districts. To the Pennsylvania post the President appointed W. S. Kirkpatrick of Easton...
Others, at night, lit torches from their fires, set ablaze piles of sugar cane over wide-stretching fields. All about the district, thousands of tons of cut cane lay spoiling. The Governor General pondered, considered the arrest of strike-leaders, sought for new ways to end the strike...
...Dropped impeachment charges against Federal Judge Frank Cooper of the Northern District of New York...
...legislatures of Massachusetts, Utah, Connecticut and the District of Columbia bills based on the Baumes laws were under consideration; in Kentucky, Louisiana and Minnesota such bills were being prepared; in New Jersey the Biro act (a similar bill) was passed by the Assembly. The Indiana Senate passed a law banning machine guns; Kansas Senators passed a bill reviving capital punishment...
...Miller is convicted. Whatever time you gentlemen take on the Daugherty case, I do not anticipate that you will spend over 15 minutes on Miller," said U. S. District Attorney Emory R. Buckner to the jury last week as he summed up the conspiracy charges against two members of the Harding Administration. Mr. Buckner, who is going to retire from office in two months, was no mean prophet...