Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nominated Pennsylvania's chunky Representative John W. Murphy, articulate Democratic member of the Congressional Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee, to be U.S. District Judge for middle Pennsylvania...
With their entire capital of $367, the newlyweds went to Carter's home town of Hammond, La. to start a daily. They lived over the shop, bartered ads for meat and vegetables, used their struggling paper to fight Huey Long tooth & nail. Theirs was the only district in the state that never sent a Long henchman to Congress...
When the call came through to her Louisville home last week, Emma Clarissa Clement was off at a district church conference in Springfield, Ky. Her daughter took the message. Mrs. Clement had just been elected American Mother of 1946 by the Golden Rule Foundation. Said the citation: "A mother of children who are devotedly serving their country and their people, a partner in her husband's ministry in his lifetime, a social and community worker in her own right...
During the war, the Brunswick was used as First District Headquarters of the Coast Guard...
...Fields. If the stockholders thought Rubinstein's motive altruistic, the U.S. Government did not. It immediately asked Manhattan's U.S. District Court to raise Rubinstein's bail from $20,000 to $1,000,000 because he was about to flee the country in a four-motored C-54 he had just bought. Furthermore, said the Government, Rubinstein was dumping his securities, and probably had $5,000,000 in cash. He had opened a big bank account in Mexico...