Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...working at the Business School courts when he observed smoke coming from the second story windows of the Carey building, a small frame and stucco structure lying almost adjacent to the northeast corner of the Stadium. Two minutes after he turned in the alarm, the Boston Fire Department, District 11, consisting of two ladder trucks and three engine trucks arrived on the scene. The first alarm was turned in at 3:28 o'clock...
Terming Republican Joseph Martin's Congressional voting the "blackest record" in recent political history, Martha Sharp, 14th District Democratic candidate opposing Martin for the House of Representatives, told a meeting of the Harvard Liberal Union in Phillips Brooks House last night that electing "progressives" this fall is essential for American prosperity...
...Sharp pointed to Martin's opposition to the fortification of Guam in 1941 and to his firm position against pro-labor and price control legislation. She quoted Wilson Wyatt, National Housing Expediter, as telling her in Washington last week that "I'd like to come up and stump your district. It's largely because of one man in Washington that the veterans housing program is 3 1/2 months behind schedule--because of one man, Joseph W. Martin of Attleboro...
...Sharp and Martin are both residents of the fourteenth Massachusetts Congressional District, and area running roughly from Fall River to Wellesley. In the event that the Republicans win a majority in the House this fall Martin will become the speaker, this increasing the significance of the contest...
...resident of Wellesley and mother of two children, Mrs. Sharp has been an active community leader in Red Cross and famine relief work for Europe. In running against Joe Martin she is taking on one of the most prominent and powerful Republican representatives in a district that is traditionally Republican...