Word: districting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hear ye, hear ye . . ." droned Sergeant-at-Arms David S. Barry as he proclaimed that the Senate was sitting as a court "for the trial of articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives" against George Washington English, U. S. Judge for the Eastern District of Illinois. Suddenly, under the clock, swinging doors swung; the doorkeeper announced the Managers (appointed by the House of Representatives to conduct the prosecution at the bar of the Senate). Four of the eight strode in, headed by Representative Michener of Michigan. He said, as everyone knew he would, that Judge English had handed...
...water of the Great Lakes. A learned man with a diplomatic beard, Charles Evans Hughes, sat in Washington last week as Special Master to hear the evidence asked for by the Supreme Court. The first group of states is seeking an injunction against Illinois and the Chicago Sanitary District to restrain them from taking water out of Lake Michigan with their Drainage Canal and sending it down the Mississippi River...
...Committee pursued its negotiations with Premier Baldwin and a settlement appeared looming on the basis of district agreements between the miners, owners, subject to revision in individual cases by a national coal tribunal under Government auspices. There was every prospect that the miners will have to accept longer hours and lower wages than was their lot before they struck...
United States District Attorney E. R. Buckner '07 will speak at the second meeting of the Harvard Law School Society today, it was announced yesterday. Professor Felix Frankfurter '06 will preside as chairman...
...went back to his Los Angeles boarding house. Next door lived a gentle Chinaman, who sold fruit and groceries. Perhaps this grocer was a relative of the Chinaman in London who sold ginger and started Author Thomas Burke on his notable career as the biographer of the Limehouse District. Perhaps not. But he soothed sad young Mr. Chrisman, by answering questions, telling stories...