Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington dopesters promptly began speculating on his successor. Two best bets: Vermont's Warren Robinson Austin or Ohio's Senator Harold Hitz Burton, both able Republicans. Democratic possibilities also mentioned: new Labor Secretary Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach or U.S. District Judge Sherman ("Shay") Minton, onetime Congressman of Indiana...
...White House last week also announced the resignation of monopoly-hating Thurman Wesley Arnold as a Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Talkative, cigar-smoking Thurman Arnold, ex-Yale professor, writer of witty and readable economic treatises (e.g., The Folklore of Capitalism-), said he would go back to law practice, with an eye to what interested him most when he was an Assistant Attorney General-anti-trust cases...
Like most Congressmen, Fred Vinson found that his $10,000 salary did not go very far. When a $12,500-a-year job on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia opened up in 1938, he took it. He left it,, five years later, to succeed his longtime friend Jimmy Byrnes as Economic Stabilizer. There his manifold duties were aimed at holding the line against inflation. By & large, he did. He also got feuding war agencies to reconcile their differences. Once, when OPA and WFA were in conflict, he remarked mildly: "Oh, if they...
...Tokyo: Kamikaze (suicide) corps bases had been installed throughout the main islands. They were armed with secret weapons in quantities that almost equaled "the total number of tanks and guns used in the European war." A regional defense system had been readied; the invaders would have to reduce resistance district by district. The food supply was being safeguarded. The capital's flattened industrial areas, cried Radio Tokyo, were being converted into fishponds and rice paddies. Strategic industry was being transferred to Manchuria...