Word: districting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...District Court in Illinois refused to grant her citizenship. In the U. S. Supreme Court, whither the case was carried, Mme. Schwimmer writhed with resentment as Acting U. S. Solicitor-General Alfred A. Wheat told the court that, if "an ordinary American housewife" held her beliefs it wouldn't matter, but that in the "brilliant Schwimmer mind'' those same beliefs were dangerous...
...Russia, 1; Sweden. 1; Switzerland, 2; Turkey, 1. Harvard College sent 112 students; Yale, 35; University of California, 26; Stanford University, 24; Dartmouth College, 22; Princeton University, 21; Williams College, 18; Brown University, 16; Bowdoin College, 15; and Massachusetts institute of Technology, 14. Students registered from 43 states, the District of Columbia, Hawall, the Philippines, and 19 foreign countries. The largest state delegations were from Massachusetts, 153; New York, 66; California 56; Ohio, 49; and Pennsylvania...
...from 95 companies and 9 were teachers from other colleges, took the full six weeks' course. The ages of men ranged from 21 to 60 years, but 85 per cent were evenly distributed over the range from 25 to 44 years. From the United States, 26 states and the District of Columbia were represented, with Massachusetts (51), New York (34), and Illinois (23), leading...
...Yale in the fall of 1888, football coaches eyed him approvingly. His, they quickly saw, was the strapping physique to crash through any resistance to victory. Last week Walter William Heffelfinger prepared to present himself to the voters of Minneapolis as a candidate for Congress in the Fifth Minnesota District at a special election to succeed Representative Walter Hughes Newton, resigned. Time had changed the Heffelfinger physique but little. At Yale he had learned how to win. In Minneapolis he was confident of the election results...
...deposits at Perm were accidentally discovered. Three years ago Professor Preobrajenski found in the Perm district what are now considered the world's largest deposits of potash, thus shattered the Franco-German potash monopoly. While digging for potash, drillers were pleasantly surprised to strike oil as well. U. S. petroleum is used chiefly in the form of gasoline; in Russia (with only 21,000 automobiles) the oil will be used mainly as fuel. Perm oil will turn many a wheel in the Ural industrial region, now dependent upon coal which must be transported some 1,200 miles...