Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nature of the catastrophe into which the U.S. and the world had been betrayed by a variety of follies and stupidities. She wanted a more vigorous war effort and a more intelligent foreign policy after the war than the U.S. had had before. The voters of the Fourth Congressional District (one large industrial city, Bridgeport, several smaller ones, and farming and commuting towns) were a little dubious about such a fighting lady but were glad to vote for someone who seemed to know what it was all about...
Rioting Moslems went after Hindus with guns, knives and clubs, looted shops, stoned newspaper offices, set fire to Calcutta's British business district. Hindus retaliated by firing Moslem mosques and miles of Moslem slums. Thousands of homeless families roamed the city in search of safety and food (most markets had been pilfered or closed). Police blotters were filled with stories of women raped, mutilated and burned alive. Indian police, backed by British Spitfire scouting planes and armored cars, battled mobs of both factions. Cried Hindu Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (who is trying to form an interim government despite the Moslems...
Hospital men think the minimum should be 4.5 beds for each 1,000 of population. Only a handful of states (e.g., New York, Massachusetts, Delaware, District of Columbia) have that many now; the nation's average is 3.5. To bring the whole U.S. up to standard will require adding 165,000 new beds in general hospitals, 60,000 in tuberculosis hospitals, 115,000 for mental and nervous patients (present total...
Died. William J. Gallagher, 71, retired street-cleaner who was elected to the 79th Congress from Minnesota's Third District, of a liver ailment; in Rochester, Minn. Said Representative Gallagher concerning his election: "This is the time for the common man, and I'm about as common as they come...
Judge Woodbury, who graduated from the Law School here in 1927, has served in municipal and state courts in New Hampshire and was appointed to his present post in 1941. Graduating from the Law School of the University of Pittsburgh in 1921, Judge Murdock worked as a district attorney in Pennsylvania until 1926, when he began his service with the United States Tax Court...