Word: districting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This county in the Finger Lakes district is the stamping ground of the famed progeny of two sisters (Jukes) and two Dutch backwoodsmen...
...your August 9th issue, in a footnote on the George E. Brennan article, I note that you state that the Finger Lakes district is the stamping ground of the noted Juke family of criminals...
...Rough Rider" friend to pay a lawyer for his defense after killing someone. Shortly afterwards, back came the $200 with a note: "Dear Teddy: I am returning the money I borrowed to help at my trial. We didn't need to have no trial, as we elected our district attorney." Then Mr. Roosevelt changed. After his defeat at the Chicago convention in 1912, "it was plain to those who knew Mr. Roosevelt and watched him that the part played by Elihu Root hurt him deeply. . . . Late at night, when the last of his advisers had left him, Mr. Roosevelt...
...district attorney, R. K. Hanger, announced that Dr. Norris, like any other Texas indictee; will receive acquittal, a minimum of two years for manslaughter, or the maximum of death in the electric chair, depending on how the twelve good Texas jurymen decide...
...Parson's plea of self-defense. Dr. Norris is the potent medicine-man of the Texas Fundamentalists. With the aid of the Ku Klux, who he claims have rallied to his cause, he may get off easily. But some, who do not take Dr. Norris' medicine, hope District Attorney Hanger lives up to his name...