Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make his bid, Charlie invited the 24 top GOPsters from his district to a dinner. Four showed up. Charlie La Follette cried: "The chips are down, the battle lines are drawn." But to most observers it just looked as if the Hoosier G.O.P. had drawn its head back into its shell-leaving Charlie outside...
Before long, the committee hopes to transfer the power company to the Omaha Public Power District, thus completing the deal for public ownership. Said Maenner: because his group bought the property a year ago, the public will pay $2,158,000 less...
...Geoffrey Lawrence, presiding judge, cut in with some sharp questions. Storey read a letter from Reichsleiter Martin Bormann to Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg. Lawrence asked what the correspondence had to do with block leaders. Again, when Storey read an anti-Jewish police order from Himmler's Gestapo headquarters to district police chiefs, Lawrence interrupted: the letter's topic seemed to him a police, not a party matter. U.S. Judge Francis Biddle had similar doubts at another point: did the prosecution contend that block leaders had taken part in top-level planning...
...after a quarter-century of litigation involving such eminent British barristers as Sir Stafford Cripps and Lord Chancellor Jowitt, the case is being retried in a Palestine district court...
Then she went back to Kirkland Lake. With things booming again in the district's 13 gold mines, she would be busier than ever. And her three children would be glad to have her back in the kitchen...