Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What Congressional district is Rockefeller Center in?" (Answer: the 17th...
...capital, Mrs. Ingham, a one-time district judge, fights for proper housing, sanitation, roads, water supply and schools for the town. In Rangely, Mrs. Kyner campaigns against cheap and dangerous building construction, unsanitary sewage disposal...
Trim, glib, tireless Mrs. Katharine St. George would not be downed. Her opponent for the Republican Congressional nomination in New York's farmerish, four-county 29th District was earnest, colorless Lawyer Augustus Bennet. As a Good-Government candidate in 1944, quasi-Republican Bennet had unseated Republican Ham Fish. Mrs. St. George, who takes her Party straight, had a low opinion...
...board of governors of the Women's National Republican Club, vice president of the St. George Coal Co. and an expert rider, she was politically irresistible. What's more, Ham Fish was 100% for her, and down in the bottom of its heart, the 29th District still liked...
...Major General William ("Wild Bill") Donovan, World War I soldier, lawyer and wartime head of the Office of Strategic Services (TIME, Aug. 16). Then, suddenly, Bill Donovan got a hard slap from the state A.F.L., which dragged up an old case from the time when Donovan was U.S. District Attorney and used it to denounce Donovan as antilabor. What Donovan had done-in 1922-was to prosecute Buffalo labor leaders who had dynamited a passenger train. At the A.F.L.'s blast out of history he protested loud & long, but some damage had been done to his candidacy...