Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election was held anyway. From the sidelines Opposition Leader General Nikola Petkoff urged all good Bulgars to stay away from the polls. The balloting was brisk. The Soviet Tass news agency reported that the vote in one Sofia district had run as high as 99%, the election as a whole had been held "quietly and in an organized manner...
...Masters of Souls. It was right and natural that Party organizers and officials should get the good things first. Kalinin reminded them that they take the place of many Tsarist officials, "the police chief, the chairman of the district nobility, the chairman of the elected district council, the inspector of people's education, the dean of the cathedral...
Then he added: "Not only are all the economics of the district under your leadership, but also you are rulers over the folk-souls of the people. ... If you yourselves correctly understand the system of Soviet power, then you are certainly masters of the peoples' souls. That is a fact...
Forty-seven states and the District of Columbia are represented in the backgrounds of the student body of the University, latest figures reveal. On the basis of records tabulated for all schools except the Law School, every state in the Union except Wyoming has at least one native studying at the University. In addition, 322 foreign students, who have come from 52 foreign countries and three territories, are studying here...
...sure winner in the battle of personalities (rather than of municipal issues): 55-year-old, Erin-born Democratic and American Labor Party Candidate William O'Dwyer, onetime New York City cop, onetime Brigadier General in the U.S. Army who, like Tom Dewey, gained fame as a gang-busting district attorney...