Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George R. Kelly '44 of Norwood carried off one of the Democratic nominations for State Representative in the Seventh Norfolk District according to Schedule, leaving him the prospect of swinging a normally Republican electorate with his Irish-veteran-Harvard background...
Herdbound. In Philadelphia, when U.S. District Court jurors lined up to march back to the courthouse after lunch, 100 passersby, thinking it a nylon queue, fell in behind...
...After weeks of searching, middle-of-the-road Fred Vinson seemed to Harry Truman to be just the man, even though he was known as a tax expert and a skillful politicker rather than a jurist (he had spent five years on the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia...
...grand Irish Mail chugging from Holyhead on the shores of the choppy Irish Sea. At 3 a.m. it was the glamorous, slightly mysterious Night Scot, running up past the misty green Lake District to salty Glasgow on the Clyde. In the evening it was the Comet from Manchester, pulling through the yards and spitting scornful clouds of steam. As the years and the big trains rolled by, Harley's dream that he would run one some day went up in the sooty smoke of Crewe. His passion for the glorious trains rotted away into consuming hatred...
Scientists cheered another indication that the Atomic Age was starting to roll. After long delay and soul-searching, the Manhattan District this week agreed to supply qualified customers with about 100 radioactive isotopes produced in its Oak Ridge uranium piles. For chemists, physicists and biologists the isotopes are important scientific tools...