Word: districting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted a resolution to investigate U. S. District Judge Francis Asbury Winslow of Manhattan on charges of bankruptcy irregularities; received similar charges against U. S. District Judge Grover M. Moscowitz of Brooklyn...
From a Los Angeles little theatre, Geddes later vaulted into important and lucrative stage design. He now has a studio-home in one of the many brownstone houses in Manhattan's Murray Hill residential district. There some 24 subalterns assist him, a blonde little Leonardo, in his multifarious labors...
...services of Congressman R. B. Wigglesworth '12 of Milton, to serve as strategist next year was also mentioned yesterday. Wigglesworth, who acted in this capacity under Haughton and Fisher, is known as one of the best tacticians in the football world. His duties as representative of the fourteenth district in Congress, and various sojourns abroad have kept him away from Cambridge during recent football seasons. He has not yet been approached by the Harvard authorities, but it was learned from Mr. Bingham that the University would welcome his services should he find himself able to give them...
...Manhattan, last week, a long-simmering Bankruptcy Scandal boiled over. Charges of nepotism, favoritism in awarding receiverships, intimidation of witnesses, were made in Congress against U.S. District Judge Francis Asbury Winslow. Congressman La Guardia of New York called for the kind of investigation, by the House Judiciary Committee, that generally precedes impeachment. Countering, Judge Winslow said it was all "a diabolical plot." The chief citation against him was that he had suspended sentence on a ''crooked bust'' named Meyer Kaplan in return for an "understanding" which, when subsequently not fulfilled, caused Buster Kaplan to be jailed...
Wall Street's Prall. Meanwhile the Representative in whose district Wall Street itself is located said nothing at all. It is from the nonfinancial stretches of Staten Island that this Representative comes. He is Anning S. Prall, a perky, bright-eyed, chest-forward Tammany Democrat. The Manhattan financial section chances to be in Mr. Prall's Eleventh District, but skyscrapers do not vote and Mr. Prall does not "represent" Wall Street any more than he represents the Statue of Liberty which is also within his constituency...