Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time the nation was at war he was executive assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District, New York. Most notable prosecutions: the first U.S. wartime sedition case (the "Black Hitler" case) in which five were sent to prison; the first wartime spy case-a New York City ring of nine German-Americans who were sentenced to a total of 132 years in prison. Later, Lawyer Sonnett went into the Navy as a lieutenant commander, spent ten months investigating the Pearl Harbor attack for Navy Secretary James Forrestal. Last week, red-eyed from sleeplessness, he was determined i) to leave John...
Last week the first round went to the trumpeter. In Chicago, Federal District Judge Walter LaBuy threw out U.S. charges against Petrillo for calling a strike at station WAAF, a one-kilowatt independent which had refused to double its union staff of record librarians (TIME, June 10). The Lea act, ruled the judge, violated the1st, 5th and 13th Amendments. Cried imperial Caesar with pious fervency: "Thank God for the federal courts...
...Difference. Last week, Berman and his fellow Communists, who knew that Mikolajczyk would win any fair election, were efficiently making sure that the Jan. 19 election would not be fair. Not a single member of Miko's Peasant Party was named to any of the 52 district committees which will supervise the voting. The Peasant Party's newspaper, Gazeta Ludowa, was crippled by constant arrests among its staff members (among the first to go was its chief crime reporter...
Exit from Peenemünde. Greatest technical triumph of Nazi Germany was the V-2 rocket, prototype of the guided missiles which may dominate future wars. The V-2 project (code name "E.W.," for Elektromechanische Werke) was pushed with all the secrecy and urgency which surrounded the U.S. "Manhattan District." The rockets were developed and tested at Peenemünde on the Baltic, and manufactured in a vast underground factory at Nordhausen, east of Kassel...
...gift-sonders that the deadline for west bound backages was last month, but that parcels sent "special handling" or "special delivery" and under the weight and size limits may still reach their western destinations "with reasonable assurance." Emergency restrictions, however, do not hold for points within the Boston postal district or A.P.O. centers...