Word: districting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...green, the green light through amber to red. The change lasts for ten seconds, or any time determined by the adjustment, then shifts back to normal. Each arriving motorist toots his horn and gets his ten seconds right-of-way. Such a signal is operating successfully in an outlying district of Baltimore...
...Chicago, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson directed the selection of one of his Negro ward bosses, a large, greying "race man" of somewhat Thompsonian demeanor, to succeed the late Martin Barnaby Madden as the Republican nominee for U. S. Representative from Chicago's largely Negroid First District...
...Annapolis superintendent was designated by Secretary Wilbur, to succeed Rear Admiral Louis McCoy Nulton. Rear Admiral Nulton, raised to Vice Admiral, will go to command the battleship divisions of the U. S. battle fleet. To Annapolis will go Rear Admiral Samuel Shelburne Robison,* commandant of the 13th Naval District and Bremerton Navy Yard (Seattle). Rear Admiral Robison, who commanded the Atlantic submarine force in the War, commanded the U. S. battle fleet in 1923-1925 and was commander-in-chief of the whole fleet...
Permission for the erection of a monument to General Artemas Ward on public grounds in the District of Columbia has been applied for by the president and fellows of Harvard College. A bill to this effect has been passed by the House of Representatives, and now awaits ratification by the Senate...
...chosen? The president of the council could not be permitted to name five men for he himself might be an offender and choose the five to his own liking. The council could not lower themselves to submitting to the questions of a body of impartial citizens. Consulting the district attorney was also out of the question. Finally the fifteen members decided to examine themselves, one after another being judged by the other fourteen. Thus will the slate be wiped clean and the honor of the city be upheld...