Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tickets for Life. CNRRA gets food to hungry people in two ways: 1) through porridge lines thrice daily, and in "soft rice" (flour and vegetable paste) kitchens set up in old temples or deserted buildings; 2) as pay for work on highway-building projects. The Pao Chang (district political bosses) give out tickets for porridge lines "on the basis of greatest need." Women and children by the score, without the magic tickets, stand outside the kitchens and beg in vain...
Steel production was down to 67.7% and falling fast. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. was down to 22% operations in the Pittsburgh-Youngstown district, and down to 40% in the Chicago-Gary area. Barren's index of industrial production was down to 160.5, a drop of 14.6 since the strike's start...
Wellesley (the town) was gerrymandered by Republicans in 1940 to throw its straight-ticket G.O.P. weight into a neutral district, so George R. Kelly '44 will take the stump next fall to see if his Irish-veteran-Harvard background can put him, as a Democrat, into the State House of Representatives...
...stumbling block which a recent Republican Legislature put in front of Democrats in the district of 40,000 people, Kelly explained, was to group Republican Wellesley with the towns of evenly divided Norwood, Westwood, and Dover in spite of the fact it was not adjacent to any of them...
...celebration and was sent to a Negro waifs' home. There he learned to play the cornet, and soon was leading an orphans' band through the streets to raise funds for the orphanage (he still sends his old horns to them). In Storyville, New Orleans' red light district, where he hung out, he learned the tricks of the old masters, Trumpeter Willie ("Bunk") Johnson and Joseph ("King") Oliver. He got his start on the river boats that carried jazz up the Mississippi...