Word: districting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...northern area of Colon, including the Washington hotel and the territory surrounding the Colon hospital, the quarantine district and wireless stations, will be transferred...
...Walsh, elected to the Senate in 1918, was the first Democratic Senator from Massachusetts in 68 years, the fourth in the history of the state. *This county in the Finger Lakes district is the stamping ground of the famed progeny of two sisters (Jukes) and two Dutch backwoodsmen. Sixty percent of this hereditary strain are idiots, imbeciles, harlots, murderers, thieves, perverts, felons, loons, sots, paupers, maniacs, etc. The Jukes have cost the government $1,308,000 in 75 years. "Boss" Brennan is no Juke...
Western railroads wanted a general freight rate increase of 5 percent; the Interstate Commerce Commission investigated for more than a year and last week said, "No." Its report asserted that, "so far as the major portion of the western district is concerned, no financial emergency exists...
Manufacturer H. H. ("Roller Bearings") Timken, Owner James M. Cox of the Canton Daily News (who lives in Dayton), the Scripps-Howard newspaper syndicate, and others, subscribed thousands at once to apprehend the murderers. The U. S. district attorney set about collecting relevant material from statements made to him last March when Mellett testified in a Canton narcotics case-statements by Mellett that he had been threatened specifically by the Canton police and "vice lords" for "inter-fering." The public learned more about one "Harry-the-Greek" Bouklias and one Harry Turner, convicted perjurers and underworld go-betweens, whose release...
...being established in 1913 President Wilson appointed him its first head. At an early age William Wilson had been employed in the Pennsylvania coal mines where his father, a Scotch immigrant, also worked. Eleven years discovered William a sturdy member of the labor union; 26, president of the District Miners' Union; 38, Secretary and Treasurer of the National Union of Miners (1900). Fortunate in a "common school education," honesty, efficiency, he entered Congress; but now is embarked on the business of agriculture. His pre-congressional career is reminiscent of that of Secretary ("Iron-puddler") Davis, of the Department...