Word: districting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although I am a native of the district Senator Willis used to represent in Congress, I had never heard him speak until last fall when I was taken along-for-the-ride to a rally of Republican women at Columbus; and since that time I've felt like starting out on a crusade-a futile one, probably, for I must admit that the girls seemed to relish such examples of bawling calf oratory as (I quote impressionistically) : "that lovable, that noble, that fooo-oully maligned man, Warren G. Harding"; "the gloooorious wooomanhood of the State of Ahia"; etc., much...
Both houses passed, and President Coolidge signed, a measure providing some 100 millions for new Federal buildings here and there throughout the land. For buildings in the District of Columbia, funds were authorized in a separate bill...
Shortly after the General Motors spurt, the market's opening was one without parallel in the memory of the oldest ticker-tape scanner in the field district. It had been rumored that there was a corner-in Radio Corporation of America, that desperate shorts who sold 350,000 shares could not borrow any stocks with which to make delivery to the purchasers at 2:15 P.M. Every craning neck in customers' rooms, every visitor in the packed galleries of the Stock Exchange, knew that General Electric Co., Westinghouse Electric Co., National Bank of Pittsburgh and the famed Fisher...
...culprit for the conjuring author to produce in the last. Not so for Zoe Akins, who wrote The Furies. The news arrives, it is true, in the first act, that somebody has shot John Sands. The second act is given over almost entirely to heartless catechism conducted by a district attorney. The third finds Fifi Sands imprisoned in a skyscraper apartment with the lunatic who, because he had loved Fift and was afraid to let her divorce his friend and marry another man, had killed her husband. But the thread of evidence is only one of the strands drawn through...
Charles P. Taft H. District Attorney of Hamilton County, Ohio, and Professor B. S. Hurlbut '87, president of the Cambridge Club, will speak at 8 o'clock tonight on "The City Manager Plan in Cincinnati...