Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That vote could not directly affect Roger Slaughter. He was not running from Harry Truman's district. But with it would go all the prestige of the presidential office. In a single, considered statement ("If he's right, I'm wrong") the President had repudiated Congressman Slaughter, had thrown the whole weight of his personal and political backing behind Candidate Enos Axtell. A rebuff for the President in his own state would be a bruising setback...
...George. Washington has never seen anything quite like George Allen, who was born in Booneville, Miss, in 1896, who practiced law, wangled himself a commission in the Army in World War I, wangled a job in the hotel business, wangled an appointment as District Commissioner of Washington, D.C., and bounced up one day at the elbow of the President...
Once when he was District Commissioner he started out to settle a local carpenters' strike. "And in no time at all," he says, "it was national...
Handy Man. His career as a national figure began with the Washington job, to which Franklin Roosevelt appointed him. George made the most of it. One way or another he kept his name on the front page: ALLEN DEMANDS MORE MONEY FOR DISTRICT RELIEF . . . COMMISSIONER ALLEN VIEWS COMING YEAR WITH OPTIMISM. In 1934 he set forth across the country dressed as a hobo to study conditions. It made a fine story...
Last week, after nearby Greenwood's enterprising Morning Star had broken the story of Mississippi's latest lynching, prosecutors in Holmes County (80% Negro) moved with commendable speed. Before a jampacked courtroom, District Attorney Harold Dyer Jr. accused Jeff Dodd, his son and three others of Leon McAtee's murder. Said he: "The citizen of Holmes County holds a white man accountable if he commits a crime, the same as he holds a Negro accountable...