Word: districting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herbert Hoover, chief municipal official of the District of Columbia, heard that Senator Howell of Nebraska, discus sing Prohibition in the Senate, had said: "Enforcement in the city of Washington can be effective. The President can dismiss any official in the city of Washington...
...make these charges unless they were based upon definite facts with time and place, and if he will lay any such information before the Department of Justice, the President will have the matters vigorously investigated, for it is the intention not only to secure the fullest enforcement in the District possible under the organization of enforcement agencies as provided by law, but to make it a model in the country...
...Made District Attorney at Crisis...
...asked by the governor of Massachusetts to assume the position of district attorney for the Northern District, which includes Middlesex County. The governor drafted him to assume this position at a time when the previous district attorney had been the object of an investigation and had resigned under fire. The success of Saltonstall under these circumstances distinguished him, but the strain was thought by his friends to have hastened his death, which occurred...
Protests against the barring of the "Strange Interlude" in Boston, where it was supposed to be produced beginning September 30 in the Hollis Theatre, have been numerous and widespread. Offers from theatre managers within the reach of the metropolitan district have been made to the Theatre Guild but none possesses so many evident advantages as the University Theatre in Cambridge. It has a slightly larger capacity than the Hollis Theatre and is within easy reach of downtown Boston...