Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sedists know that this time, as Berlin slang puts it, "Es geht um die Wurst" ("The sausage is at stake," meaning: this is it)..The elections (at which Berliners will choose 130 city councillors and 805 district assemblymen) are Germany's first to be supervised jointly by all four occupying powers. This means that, for once, SED will have to compete honestly with its rival parties (the Liberals, Christian Democrats and Social Democrats). Even without joint central control, in Russian zone elections last month SED polled only a bare 52% majority...
...week's end, with an investigation under way, District Immigration Director Eddie E. Adcock estimated that perhaps as many as 1,500 Canadians had crossed the river in recent weeks to become U.S. soldiers...
...interesting if slightly muddled psychological story in "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers," a movie which should satisfy the lust for evil in all but the morbidly insatiate. The characters are all either just out of jail or on the verge of getting in with the exception of a district attorney, and he commits murder and suicide at the end to make the criminality virtually unanimous...
Brilliantly played by Kirk Douglas, this weak-willed, fear-ridden, drunkard of a district attorney is the only man outside of Van Heflin who knows about Barbara Stanwyck's murderous past. He also is married to her. But she loves Heflin, and when he comes back after eighteen years that starts trouble. But Lizabeth Scott loves Heflin too. But Heflin can't decide between Miss Scott and Miss Stanwyck...
Currently throwing its efforts into the campaign of Martha Sharp for Congress against Joe Martin in the Massachusetts fourteenth district and also for Oliver Allen, the Liberal Union is trying to recruit men to canvass for the election of these candidates...