Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guildhall, where he had come to receive honorary Freedom of the City,* General Ike had heard such applause. In accordance with custom he had come through the old, battered City (London's financial district) in an open, horse-drawn landeau, and the crowds were waiting for him all along the sand-strewn streets...
...Rockefeller Jr., who had admired Fosdick's fight, offered him the pastorate of the Park Avenue Baptist Church. Fosdick accepted- with conditions. The church must: 1) no longer require immersion; 2) grant membership to all Christians, regardless of creed; 3) build a new church in a less swank district; 4) pay the minister no more than $5,000. (Later, when the pressure of church work began to cut down his out side income, his salary was boosted close...
Before long, everybody knew that the signaling gentleman was U.S. District Attorney Philip Barton Key, son of the famed composer of The Star-Spangled Banner. They knew, too, that the lady was Teresa Sickles, daughter of an Italian opera conductor and lovely wife of the distinguished young Daniel Edgar Sickles, U.S. Representative from New York, lawyer, "Father of Central Park," Tammany man, former First Secretary of the U.S. Legation in London, and a descendant of one of New York City's most respected Dutch families...
...Beginning. The Russians had no monopoly on trouble. In the British and U.S. zones, policy differed from district to district, and in some areas military government teams changed almost as often as the weather (TIME, June 4). Harsh observance of the non-fraternization rule was robbing the Anglo-American forces of the cooperation of sincere anti-Nazis, while the necessity of employing existing staffs for administration kept many a Nazi in power...
There was also one ominous note. In the Rue d'Aboukir, the heart of Paris' Jewish business district, knots of former slave laborers from Germany raised the ugly Nazi cry: "A bas les Juifs!"-Down with the Jews...