Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Holiday in the Sun. In Los Angeles, steel and electrical workers picketed or sat under beach umbrellas. For some, it was like a holiday. Theaters and stores in the Huntington Park industrial district did a roaring business. Said one striker: "All during the war I was on the night shift and now I'm going to see every damn wrestling match I can until the strike's over...
When the auction began in Denver's ornate State Capitol, Mitchell's well-wishers held their breaths. Then they stirred angrily. The Mountair School District ; wanted the land for a playground; its President, H. B. Jaedke...
...delinquency of minors. A cop had caught him one night in a parked car with an eleven-year-old girl, whom he is accused of raping. The girl was one of some 30 or 40 children in his school, the majority of whom had tales to tell which the District Attorney described as "the most depraved stories of immorality I have ever heard." Wife Laura Balles, 35, who described her life with Headmaster Balles as "idyllic bliss," was up to her neck in whatever he was doing to the children...
Harold Ickes made Hastie an assistant solicitor in the Interior Department. In 1937 Franklin Roosevelt named him U.S. District Judge in the Virgin Islands, the first Negro ever to sit on the Federal bench. As civilian aide to War Secretary Stimson in 1941, William Hastie pushed and prodded for Negro recognition in the services, finally got the War Department to set up the 99th (all-Negro) Fighter Squadron. Two years later, disillusioned over the Army's persistent segregation policy, he resigned...
Joseph Stalin was solid. The voters in the Stalin Automobile Factory district in Moscow, after due deliberations, nominated him for re-election as their deputy to the Supreme Soviet. The vote: unanimous...