Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seventeen year olds who will have finished their current college term by June 25 or who will have gained a high school diploma by that time are eligible as candidates and may appear before the Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board at First Naval District headquarters, located at 150 Causeway Street in Boston...
Through the Paris censorship trickled news of a bloody insurrection in Algeria. Since May 8, fierce Kabyle tribesmen* had stabbed or beaten to death a hundred French officials and wealthy colons (landowners who exploit native farm labor) in the mountainous district of Little Kabylia. The Europeans had picked up their guns, banded together and held off the Kabyles as best they could until police and regular troops arrived...
Pete Reilly is a natural-born innovator. He developed boxing champions Jack Delaney and Bat Battalino, became famed as the originator of the hot foot. Last week, with the atmosphere at many a ringside foul with monkey business (investigations were under way in California, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia), silver-haired Pete brought his fresh air with...
...novice at brass-hattism, Conqueror Porter cleared his throat, announced coldly that he would have to make an inspection of the area. In a staff car the Americans toured the district, "liberated" six towns to enthusiastic French cheers...
After his six months of compulsory military training, Peter easily won one of the 25 federal scholarships assigned to his district. In college, with leave to advance as fast as he was able, he spent just two years as an undergraduate; he made fast friends among the many foreign students, lived most of the time in a campus boarding club (although his father constantly urged him to join one of the few remaining fraternities). After graduation, Peter wangled a federal grant for research, finally won his M.A. two years later at the age of 21-in June...