Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, it looked as though many a Frenchman was weary of coalition haggling. A new Gaullist Union Party with half a million members was mushrooming. It announced that it would fight the new constitution, put up candidates in every district in the next election. The new party reflected De Gaulle's political ideas. But De Gaulle himself was discreetly silent about his political intentions...
...citizen of Croat extraction who had once been a district organizer of the U.S. Communist Party...
...outdone, Japanese declared Miss Shizue Yamaguchi, 28, the most beautiful woman in the newly elected Japanese Diet. In the first election in which Japanese women have ever run, Miss Yamaguchi, a Social Democrat, was elected to represent Tokyo's First District. When not legislating, she works in her father's bicycle factory, where she is typist and sometimes head cook...
After buying a new place, Heidt hunts down the most popular managers, bartenders, waiters, cooks, etc. in the neighborhood and hires them. Then he personally rings doorbells in the district and asks people if they have tried his new place...
...summer of 1936, Major Bowes led with 23.7; eleven other shows rated better than 10. In 1943, the top was the Walter Winchell program, with 16.3; six others were over 10. This summer, Mr. District Attorney was high, with a mere 10.8; only one other, Suspense, was over...