Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...onetime Mayor of Boston. Then he sneaked off to a movie, A Night in Casablanca. That night, when returns showed he had beaten his toughest rival in his home territory, grave, earnest, teetotaling Jack Kennedy knew he was in. Rarely has a Republican Congressman been elected from the Eleventh District...
...Since his discharge from the Navy in November, presidential aspirant Stassen has made more than 100 speeches in 21 states and the District of Columbia, from the Lumbermen's Convention in New York to the Junior Chamber of Commerce in San Angelo, Tex., from Harvard's Godkin lectures to tiny Principia College in Elsah, Ill., before veterans, Rotarians, Kiwanians, the FBI. At fees ranging from nothing to $1,000, a conservative estimate of his gross...
...Slaughter is Harry Truman's neighbor-Congressman. He represents Missouri's Fifth District, comprising about half of Kansas City and a small segment of Jackson County. The President's home district is Missouri's Fourth, taking in Independence and the rest of Jackson County...
What hurt Democratic stalwarts most was that there seemed to be nothing to do about him. In Democratic Jackson County there is an unwritten law: a "Goat" (the old Tom Pendergast faction to which Harry Truman belongs) is always the Fourth District candidate, a "Rabbit" (the heirs of the late Congressman Joe Shannon) always runs in the Fifth-and never would the two machines collide. Thus "Rabbit" Slaughter has the committed support of Jim Pendergast, who, like his late uncle, Tom, has a passion for keeping his political word...
Eddie Cantor went to Denver to award the city a handsome plaque for the safe-&-sane state of its street traffic, was dined by the mayor at the country club. Out to the club to police the dinner went all the cops in the business district, and Denver suffered its worst traffic tie-up in history...