Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Late in 1937, when young District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey was adding a high score of convictions to his reputation as a gang buster, New York City banks were plagued by a series of big-money forgeries. The methods indicated the work of a master crook. The forger had been seen -by bank clerks who cashed the forged checks. But there were no clues, other than that the forger claimed to have an office at No. 39 Broadway...
Blue-Ribbon Conviction. One day in 1938, Campbell got word to look in at District Attorney Dewey's office. He did. Three hours later he was in the Tombs, accused of a $4,160 forgery. In a few speedy weeks he had a speedy trial. Four witnesses from banks positively identified him as the check passer. The hand-picked "blue-ribbon" jury saw its duty and did it. It was only because Bertram Campbell had never been arrested for anything before that the judge gave him the minimum sentence-five to ten years...
Congresswoman Luce made no reply. But the Bridgeport (Conn.) Sunday Post (circ. 40,243), best newspaper in her home district, rose valiantly to her defense, roared back at the Russian giant: "Pravda . . . practically froths at the mouth. But it gives no answer to the carefully collated, factually documented articles which Mrs. Luce has been inserting in the Congressional Record...
...stiff. Halfway up the 30-ft. flagpole, Lawson's foot slipped. He fell, heading for certain death, but the climbing stirrup caught his foot. For more than an hour, he hung helplessly upsidedown, 24 floors and a few odd feet above Richmond's shopping district...
...Milwaukee, the sentimental citizenry was buying 10,000 copies a week of a book of photographs (enlivened with scant text and pen sketches) called The Story of "Gertie"-all about a duck who hatched six eggs in the heart of the financial district while thousands cheered...