Word: districting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Notably the district of Vilna, birthplace of Marshal Pilsudski, changed hands between Lithuania and Poland no less than five times in the year 1920. Eventually Vilna was seized with great firmness by the Polish General Zeligovski (Oct. 9, 1920), and this fait accompli was recognized by the Council of Ambassadors (TIME, March 31, 1923). Since 1920, however, both countries have remained in a nominal "state of war," and quarrels on every possible minor issue have been incessant...
...represented Lithuania at almost every important international conference since. A scholar, a brilliant speaker commanding ten languages, he bases his political strength squarely on a platform of ardent nationalism. That he has been of many nationalities, in the legal sense, is explained by the fact that the district in which he was born has been, during his lifetime, once Russian, once German, several times Lithuanian and is now Polish. By general repute Premier Valdemaras is deemed relatively normal, in contrast with the unguessable moods and eccentricities of Marshal Pilsudski...
Handsome, young, fearless, scornful, "Flaming Milka" marched to one mine after another in the southern Colorado district, day after day adding to her following. "Don't work, men!" she cried. "A strike is on. Stand by your comrades." Pointing at mine-guards with fixed bayonets, she would cry: "They can't dig coal with bayonets...
Adjutant General Newlon, with a proclamation of martial law in his pocket, sent for militia, tanks, a medical unit. Governor Adams pronounced the Columbine district to be in a state of insurrection. He and his witnesses absolved Mr. Scherf and the state troopers for their deeds of "self-defense." The strikers swore out warrants for the arrest of their comrades' "murderers," asserting that their part in the Columbine episode had been peaceable. They had only wanted to go to the Columbine post office, they said. Wobbly Adam Bell and others were arrested to prevent further post office visiting...
Under a permit dated March 3, 1925, Illinois and its Chicago sanitary district have been drawing some 8,500 cubic feet of water per second from Lake Michigan, to flush away Chicago's sewage through a drainage canal emptying into the Des Plaines River which enters the Illinois River, which enters the Mississippi. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, complaining that Great Lakes levels were injuriously lowered by this leak at Chicago, sued to restrain Illinois in the U. S. Supreme Court. To Illinois' aid came Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. These co-defendants...