Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...C.I.O.'s United Furniture Workers of America were in an uproar. Hassock-shaped Morris Muster, overstuffed (215 lbs.) U.F.W.A. president, had quit in disgust after nine years in the union. Two days later a Southern district president followed him out. Said Muster, 20,000 members were in open revolt. Their reason: U.F.W.A. had been taken over by its Communist faction; the new executive board was dominated by Stalinists...
...Hearty Feed." But by last week Stassenites suddenly realized that they might be heading for a sharp comeuppance. Despite published polls, reports from district leaders and the gossip of professional politicos showed that shrewd old Henrik Shipstead had been retrieving ground fast, might even be edging ahead...
...sunrise, at midday and at dusk, church bells call to each other across the Emilian plain. In the past year anticlerical terrorists in the diocese of Reggio Emilia, near Bologna, had answered the bells by murdering five priests. Two months ago the Vatican sent to the tough district a tough bishop, Beniamino Socche...
Back in 1916, tiny, tidy Emily Griffith was a red-haired eighth-grade schoolteacher in a poor district of Denver. Distressed because so many boys & girls were dropping out of school, she went to their homes to learn why. They were needed as breadwinners. Too often, their parents had lost jobs because they were illiterate or unskilled. The children could get work while they were young, but one day they would be in the same fix. Emily decided to start a "second chance" school for adults -to prove that opportunity always knocks twice...
...Army plans to invest some $90 million, a third of it in basic research. An additional $40 million of the Army's Manhattan District (nuclear) funds are earmarked for research. By last week the District was well along in arrangements for a chain of regional laboratories across the nation. Biggest: the Argonne Laboratory near Chicago, headed by 39-year-old Physicist Walter Henry Zinn. The University of Chicago, the Mayo Clinic and 22 other Midwest institutions will help run Argonne via an advisory board, will use it as a center for research in nuclear physics, biochemistry and other fields...