Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corporal, attached to headquarters of the Central Army District, was in a hotel and put his head out the window when he heard the drone of engines overhead. "I looked up," he said in a Tokyo radio interview, "and simultaneously a lightning-like flash covered the whole sky, blinding my eyes. Unconsciously, I dived for cover and a torn quilt miraculously was blown over me, which I hugged to myself for dear life...
...Deal" party. Its emblem: a lighted electric bulb. It also had a candidate for mayor: Yaleman Newbold Morris, Republican City Council President and protégé of Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who is retiring. (Morris' opponents : Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, Republican - Liberal -City Fusion candidate ; former Brooklyn District Attorney William O'Dwyer, choice of the Democrats and the American Labor Party.) The new party's name, thought up by LaGuardia, was intended to signify that no deals had been made with politicians...
...Brazilian political patter, Queremistas (we want-ers) are tub-thumpers for President Getulio Vargas. In Rio last week, the Queremistas, with or without presidential encouragement, thumped resoundingly. In Brazil's Federal District they shouted: "We want Getulio...
...pleasantly wooded district, the grounds and buildings had been laid out in 1937 to house a second Sandhurst (Britain's West Point). Turned over to the U.S. for an officer training camp, it was converted after V-E day into a campus for 4,000 G.I. students. At the start, there were only 3,611, including 270 officers, 14 nurses, and eight WACs. They ranged in age from 19 to 46 (average: 22½) and in rank from buck private to lieutenant colonel. Their average education amounted to one year of college...
...home, in a neat stucco house in San Francisco's Mission District, waited Mrs. Carolyn De Mont, with daughter Carol, 8, who might have gone along with her father except that she was abed with the measles...