Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carefully planned strike. First the workers were called out in a midcity area embracing the bee-busy garmentmaking district. Then the walkout was gradually extended until it paralyzed most of commercial Manhattan. Pickets walked back & forth quietly; there was no disorder. But millions of dollars worth of business was snarled. (Notably, garment makers in other cities began to gobble up some of Manhattan's markets...
...apprehensions and hopes about the marriage of a middle-aged man to a young woman? Unlike most Lewis novels, Cass Timberlane posed no social problem. Blurbed ostentatiously as "a novel of husbands and wives," it chronicled the courtship and marriage of sedate, flute-playing Judge Timberlane, of the Minnesota district court, and Virginia Marshland, draftsman and designer for the Fliegend Fancy Box and Pasteboard Toy Manufacturing Company...
...fertile Satara district of Bombay Presidency was gripped by fear. Bands of terrorists, who had proclaimed an underground patri sarka (government of broken feet) in opposition to the Raj, terrorized and looted for 14 months. In the villages, their "courts" executed eight suspected informers, medievally mutilated another 74. Last week 1,500 Bombay police had finally shattered the reign of dread, arrested one of its principal leaders...
With the exception of Frisco, Shady Lady is an unfamiliar concoction of several very familiar ingredients. If Ginny, who sings in the nightclub part of Alan Curtis' gambling joint, can get her lovable old crook of an uncle (Charles Coburn) to go straight, then Assistant District Attorney Paige (whom she likes a lot) may not discover her uncle's pungent past-and maybe she and Paige can get married. While these major threads, and innumerable minor threads, are being tangled and untangled, Ginny gives out tooth-somely with three new songs-one of which, In Love with Love...
...left the News when Publisher Frank Knox died. Now back in the Mowrer apartment in Paris' genteelly shoddy Invalides district, Paul Scott Mowrer is eating poorly, like the French, but happy to be back. Son Richard, also a Postman,* sometimes sends coffee and canned groceries from the States. Then Paul and his wife Hadley (once the first wife of Ernest Hemingway) entertain the opposition: Paris Herald Editor Geoffrey Parsons Jr., who argues with Zenobie, the cook, about De Gaulle, but never about cooking...