Word: districting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other forms of excitement came later. He traveled to the ends of the earth. He elected his brother District Attorney. He went to Russia as confidential secretary to the U. S. Ambassador, and ran away from the Embassy to watch the Russians fight the Germans. But excitement, for him, had to be balanced by achievement. So he accepted from President Wilson the job of Director of the Mint, and served into the Harding Administration...
...shown by a map made by the Chamber of Commerce of the U. S., business conditions are good in southern New England, along the Mohawk Valley, along the southern edges of the Great Lakes (except of Superior), in the Minnesota and immediately contiguous grain regions, the Chesapeake Bay district, throughout the South except the Delta country, in northern Texas, along the Mexican Border (except the Texas line), coastal California from San Francisco south, in the Columbia valley and Puget Sound areas, and on the easterly side of the northern Rocky Mountains. Elsewhere business was fair; nowhere quiet...
Memories of the Bernstoff revelations with their subsequent exposure of a Japanese-Mexican alliance have been awakened by news that Magdelina Bay, in Lower California, has been leased to a Tokio syndicate. In view of the close proximity of this district to the American border, Washington officials fear that the move may mean the establishment of a naval base and perhaps a Japanese colony. Twenty-five years ago the Senate blocked a similar project on the ground that it would be a source of danger to the safety of the United States. Consequently the Foreign Relations Committee is prepared...
...Madison Square Garden, Manhattan.* The purpose was to boost the Association's campaign to raise $2,000,000 for a great women's clubhouse. Some 10,000 women were present. Part of the publicity was to make honorary members of 49 women?one from each state and from the District of Columbia...
Historical Society, the Bureau of British Universities, the American University Union. The district is quiet and dignified, well served by tram, tube and busses, seemingly an ideal spot for a concentrated university quarter. The option was to expire April 1, but up to last week the University of London had done nothing towards taking it up. A dozen reasons were given-the site was too cramped, too citified, too expensive. The real reason was concealed- the "bigwigs" of the University's colleges were afraid of being nudged and bunted by one another's reputations and personalities if brought...