Word: districting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swing heavy blue double-decked buses. There they stop, to start up again with a splattering roar of the exhaust. At that corner stands the Friends Meeting House where President and Mrs. Hoover worship. So loud were the bus noises that the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia ordered the vehicles to take another route on Sunday mornings. Last Sunday the President worshipped in peace...
...indicted, tried, sentenced in the District of Columbia Supreme Court two years ago. His appeal to the Supreme Court was on the ground that the Senate's questions pried illegally into his private affairs, that he was already threatened with court action on the subject-matter of these questions, were not pertinent to the legislation...
...Famed in the annals of moral turpitude is the case of Vera, Countess Cathcart. In 1926 a U. S. District Court found that she had admitted committing what is regarded by most law as an act involving moral turpitude, namely adultery. U. S. law further states that a person making such an admission shall be refused admission to the U. S. But Countess Cathcart remained. Reason: The adultery was committed in South Africa, where adultery is no crime...
Miss Glenna Collett, of the Westchester Biltmore Club, women's national golf champion, is ranked first among the 1,237 feminine players of the metropolitan district in a list made public last week by the Women's Metropolitan Golf Association. Miss Collett is given a rating of plus two. Miss Maureen Orcutt, of White Beeches, is ranked second at plus one. In third place are three players, Miss Marion Hollins, Westbrook, Miss Martha M. Parker, Westchester Hills, and Mrs. Courtland Smith, Glen Ridge, at scratch...
...bill provides for the division of the U. S. into eight districts of six states. From each district four Rhodes scholars will be chosen annually. Thus, as Cecil Rhodes desired, 96 U. S. students will receive scholarships every three years...