Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week this machine-age approach got Mrs. Cordova into trouble. Three of her best clients complained about her work to District Attorney James T. Burke. One aggrieved man with a "stomach misery" said he had paid her $60, had drunk a quart of mysterious liquid every three days for five months without any sign of improvement. Another had given her $25 to slap a hex on an undesirable daughter-in-law. The damned thing hadn't worked. Neither had a $40 wife-luring...
...District Attorney Burke was slightly baffled at first. If Mrs. Cordova was a witch-even an unsuccessful witch-what could he do about it? He set a deputy to searching the statutes, discovered that a law prohibiting palmistry, mesmerism and seership also made "crafty sciences" illegal. Promptly he jailed Mrs. Cordova; just as promptly she got out-by muttering Spanish phrases, throwing dark glances and posting $1,000 bail...
Free, she lighted a cigaret, stared into the distance, fingered a half pound of religious medals and denied the whole business. "I am not a bruja [witch]," said she. By week's end many of her clients disappointedly agreed: the district attorney had not yet suffered from cramps, colic, or cast in the eye, had apparently felt no overpowering urge to eat glass or stick his head into an airplane propeller...
...rest of the reef bears out the first core's promise-prove an old geological theory. Geologists have long guessed that Johannesburg's famed, rich Witwatersrand and its wealthy western extension are part of a prehistoric geological basin whose opposite curve cuts beneath the Odendaalsrus district and could produce a similar bonanza...
...greeted with the same enthusiasm as the recent suggestion of whipping-boy Wallace. Besides recommending adoption of an honest-to-God budget, increases in Congressional salaries, appointment of an administrative assistant for each solon, and the lifting of petty but time-consuming burdens such as the supervision of the District of Columbia, the report advocates a revamping of the overlapping, over powerful committee system. Congressional committee have long been the stronghold of the "rugged individualist" and the chief means by which a small group o men could deny the right of the majority to legislate. Therefore the reform urges that...