Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rioted in the streets. Tough Joao Alberto Lins de Barros, chief of the powerful federal police force, resigned, and Getulio's sinister, trigger-happy brother, Benjamin, replaced him. Canny old War Minister General Pedro Aurelio Goes Monteiro also stepped out. The commander of the Rio de Janeiro military district ordered all enlisted Army, Navy and Air Force personnel to report to their barracks. The city tensed; U.S. officials ordered all U.S. sailors off the streets...
...Harvard made one of the greatest contributions of the war," said Rear Admiral Felix X. Gygax, USN, Saturday at commissioning exercises for 32 NROTC Seniors in University Hall. Admiral Gygax is commandant of the First Naval District...
Reviewing the marchers will be Rear Admiral James E. Pine, Superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy, Rear Admiral W. N. Derby, District Coast Guard Officer, Captain C. H. J. Keppler, Commanding Officer of the Harvard Naval Training Schools, and Deans Buck and Hanford for the University...
First he had a promise to keep to an old Missouri friend, portly, bald Bennett Champ Clark, his appointee to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and a former Senate colleague. In a century-old Episcopal church at Berryville, Va., the President stood as best man as Widower Clark and British-born Actress Violet Heming were married. Best Man Truman, the only participant not in formal rig, seemed to be the calmest person in the church. He delivered the ring at the right moment, stood through the ceremony, then stepped back into a pew with Mrs. Truman and daughter...
...Patterson made his first explosive announcement since becoming Secretary of War (TIME, Oct. 1). He had completed a personal investigation of 57-year-old Colonel Theodore Wyman Jr., the Army's district engineer in Hawaii at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, and found him a fit officer and gentleman...