Word: districting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill since 1913, carrying $165,000,000 to be spent over a period of five years. The money is to be allocated by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster General** to communities in which buildings are most needed, but $50,000,000 is especially marked for the District of Columbia, by vote of 263 to 120. (Bill went to the Senate...
...Passed a Mothers' Pension Bill for the relief of widows and orphans of the District of Columbia...
Ward Flood Products. In Baltimore, at the command of U. S. Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent, who termed his action the "first instance in which the Department of Justice has sought to administer prophylactic treatment under the anti-trust laws," the Department filed suit in the District Court against the new two-billion-dollar Ward Food Products Corp. (TIME, Feb. 8), charging that corporation with violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law and of the Clayton Act. Defendants named are: Ward Food Products Corp., Ward Baking Co., General Baking Corp., Continental Baking Corp., United Bakeries Corp., William B. Ward, Howard...
National Food Products. In Manhattan the Government filed in the Federal District Court a similar anti-trust suit against the National Food Products Corp., whose proposed expansions were so exuberantly proclaimed the week before (TIME, Feb. 15). The petition claimed that the Government has the right of preventive action under Par. 2, Sec. 7 of the Clayton Act, which reads...
...House Committee in the District of Columbia was holding hearings on a bill to abolish capital punishment in that little rectangle of land set apart for the business of governing the nation. A witness appeared to be questioned. He wore baggy clothes, was weary looking. A cigaret drooped from his mouth. But his eyes focused with keeness and understanding on the members of the committee...