Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress. His political career followed the typical small-town pattern: commonwealth (district) attorney, election to Congress (1922). In 1928, when he supported Al Smith, he went under in the Hoover landslide. But two years later he was back. He worked hard, carried the tax ball for the Ways & Means Committee, became known and famed as a fiscal expert. In 1937, after the Supreme Court had thrown out the Guffey Coal Act, Vinson studied the decision, wrote a new bill, made it stand...
Along Fifth Avenue and in the high canyons of the financial district, clerks threw cautionings and paper to the winds, sent 77 tons of ticker tape and torn wastepaper fluttering down. (The tonnage for Lindbergh: 1,800.) Harlem's Negroes yelled like Indians on the warpath. Thirty thousand schoolchildren shrilled along Central Park drives. Everywhere the sound of cheering erupted deafeningly (after setting up a "noise meter" the stunned General Electric Co. calculated that it equaled 3,000 thunderclaps...
Last week, U.S. District Judge Chase Addison Clark declared: while the intent of the law is not clear, it is unthinkable that it should be interpreted so that it should deprive the plaintiff of his business because he has served his country...
...minute he had, the bosses of all parties, sniffing the winds of power, put on brass-knuckle fights to pick their candidates. Democrats, with a handsome candidate handed them on a platter, roiled and boiled for weeks before they finally chose him: Brooklyn's District Attorney William O'Dwyer, onetime cop, hod carrier, onetime student for the priesthood, an ex-brigadier general, and the man who broke up Brooklyn's Murder...
...directed by the recent Kuomintang Congress (TIME, June 4), the Kuomintang Standing Committee ordered the abolition of all Party branches in the Army and schools, and the popular election of all provincial and district People's Councils. When & if executed, these orders would mark the end of one-party tutelage and the beginning of constitutional democracy in Free China...