Word: districting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flood aftermath last week centered about two topics-Herbert C. Hoover and special session. Secretary Hoover appeared generally regarded, in the flooded district, as the "hero" of the flood; in Chicago, however, he was not so highly considered. Meanwhile the Special Session (to consider flood problems) continued to find many supporters, though to the cynical minded it took on the aspect of a tail to the tax-reduction kite...
Last week the U. S. G. A. began to investigate the case of George J. Voight of Washington, D. C., who was recently ousted from the District of Columbia Golf Association because he had "acted in a manner detrimental to the best interest and spirit of the game." Mr. Voight's "detrimental" deed was giving up the repairing of typewriters for the U. S. Department of the Treasury and accepting a position as secretary to Edward B. McLean, potent publisher of the Washington Post and playmate of the late Present Harding...
...Rosenbaums (Rosenbaum Brothers, Rosenbaum Grain Co.) established their position as great grain storers by forming the Chicago Elevator Properties, Inc., in Chicago last week. That new company will own and operate seven grain elevators and operate two additional leased ones in the Chicago district, acquired from Armour Grain Corp. in settlement...
...survey showed that the Chicago metropolitan district (Cook, Kane, Du Page and Will counties in Illinois and Lake county in Indiana) produced in 1925 manufactured goods valued at $4,688,696,674 or 7.47% of all goods made in the U. S. that year. Its population then was 3.47% of the country's. Its 10,540 industrial establishments paid $765,847,023 to 499,823 employes...
Died. U. S. Congressman Maurice E. Crumpacker, 40, Republican, of the Third Oregon District. He jumped or fell into San Francisco Bay and was drowned. Mr. Crumpacker had spent the previous night at the San Francisco Emergency Hospital, after having been found sitting on a curbstone and stating that he had been poisoned. He was born in Valparaiso, Ind., and had been in Congress since 1925. Mr. Crumpacker had been an Army captain in the World...