Word: districting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed the District of Columbia Appropriations Bill...
...doing so, he seemed to have commandeered most of the power of New York. Long lines of policemen snapped their fingers on the crossroads of the theatre district. At 45th Street, 25 policemen held back the North-South cars and pedestrians while the East-West bound passed...
Elsewhere, onlookers jeered and cheered as cars parked at forbidden hours in forbidden places were trundled off by wrecking crews. The principal Whalen innovations were two: 1) "spectacle dramas" (girls) to begin at 8:30; other productions at 8:50; 2) No traffic turning whatsoever in the district...
...endemics are so sharply limited disconcerts epidemiologists. They have long believed typhus an acute disease, carried from one person to another directly or by mediancy of head or body lice. But when they studied the Montgomery, Ala., district, the worst typhus focus in the U. S., they found the whites and Negroes of that region as little lousy as the whites and Negroes of the more northerly Birmingham district. Indeed body lice are almost unknown in Alabama, although head lice are found occasionally in school children. Lice apparently are not responsible for Montgomery typhus. In places further south the health...
...compliment, no complement to her husband. Mrs. Mabel Brady Garvan is both to her Francis Patrick Garvan. She, daughter of the late very wealthy Anthony N. Brady, sister of Nicholas Frederic Brady (Anaconda Copper, gas & electric utilities, Chrysler Motors), chose him when he was a vigorous, powerful assistant district attorney in New York City.* He was her brother-in-law, brother of Nicholas F. Brady's wife Genevieve Garvan Brady. And ever since she has worked, sometimes behind him, usually beside him, never before him, always with him-through his private management of their joined wealth, his custodianship...