Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Politician Truman made the news. Like a man itching to peel off his coat and get into a backyard brawl, he announced that he was out to beat a Democrat who had obstructed his policies in Congress. His target: conservative Representative Roger Caldwell Slaughter of Missouri's Fifth District, onetime neighbor of County Judge Harry Truman and now a candidate for renomination in the August 6 primary (TIME, July...
...boys in the back room were thinking ahead. The Fifth District, taking in Kansas City's "silk stocking" South Side, has never been a Democratic stronghold. The Boss's slap at Slaughter was irrevocable; with the Democrats split into factions, the Republican candidate might easily win in November...
...could not vote against Representative Slaughter. The President's home Congressional District is Missouri's Fourth; Slaughter's is the Fifth...
...postwar hit. Her audience, which had followed her from the Femina Club to the Kabarett der Komiker, heard her intone: "Come back, come back, I am waiting for you, for you are my happiness" and "Under the red lantern of St. Pauli [in Hamburg's famed red-light district] my girl stands waiting...
...question is too big or too small. A member from the mining district wants to know why miners in a certain town are being charged for their transportation to and from the mine. The Minister of Labour must answer him and he does. Another member wants to know the exact amount of oil and petrol reserves on hand in England, and the Minister of Fuel and Power answers that it would not be in the best interests of the nation to reveal this information. Silver-haired Anthony Eden, handsomer than his pictures make him out to be, rises and wants...