Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia-which probably handles the largest number of labor cases of any court in the land-Harry Truman last week appointed Missouri's labor-hated ex-Senator Bennett Champ Clark. It was probably his worst appointment to date. The President owed Bennett Clark little. As Senators they had rarely seen eye to eye. Harry Truman voted 99% New Deal, Bennett Clark had chipped and sniped away at Franklin Roosevelt. In the 1944 primaries, Clark was repudiated by Missouri voters in the primary, largely on the strength of labor opposition. Now labor...
Understandable Man. The third major candidate was someone that any visitor could understand: a triple-dyed, up-from-the-ranks Democrat, and no question about it. He was stocky, scrappy William O'Dwyer, ex-Brooklyn District Attorney, ex-Brigadier General, who once studied for the priesthood, became a bartender, hod carrier, cop and magistrate...
What Ottawa now has of gracious streets and spacious vistas is largely the work of Jacques Greber. Before the war he drew up a plan for beautifying the city, beginning with a landscaped plaza in the center of the business district and radiating out from there. Now he would really start radiating...
Some 900 square miles of rolling hills, woods, rivers, canals, the cities of Ottawa and Hull will be converted into a "National Capital District," most of it across the Ottawa River in Quebec province. The whole district will be a memorial to Canada's World War II dead...
Last week, the OPA issued its ceilings on washers and household electrical appliances, a modest 7.7% increase over prewar prices. OPA also sideswiped President Hurley. It filed suit in Chicago's U.S. District Court against Hurley for violating price ceilings, asked triple damages of $150,000. Hurley said he was "damn mad," got set to fight OPA "until the cows come home." He wants OPA to retract and admit that, under the circumstances, there were no dirty dealings. Many an other appliance maker got ready to side with Hurley, turn this into a full-scale test...