Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Choctaw County, Ala. and Deep Freeze lockers down home in Mobile -salmon from Quebec, venison from Alabama, elk from Montana, bear meat from the Okefenokee Swamp, turkey from Georgia, antelope from Chugwater, Wyo. Also a big batch of coon, possum and .'taters from Alabama's First Congressional District which, proclaimed the booming host, is God's country. Then, after a few cases of Scotch and bourbon to wash down the appetizers, there was the dinner itself-fresh shrimp, green turtle soup, Steak Rayburn (a double-cut smothered in mushrooms), a few hookers of brandy and fragrant Coronas...
...tuck all the way. With all 48 states accounted for, Gabrielson and Beck were locked solid 45 votes to 45. Alaska's one vote put Beck ahead. Then Gabrielson went into the lead with two votes each from the District of Columbia, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Before the final vote was announced, one Nebraska committeeman switched his vote to give Gabrielson a bare majority...
John Foster Dulles, freshman Senator from New York, who was denied a seat on the potent Foreign Relations Committee because of seniority, brought his formidable knowledge of world affairs to bear in a consolation post-the District of Columbia Committee, which runs the city of Washington. "I am generally," said Dulles, "in favor of killing off the starlings. They are an importation from Europe that is not good...
This was more than the research society could stand. In the name of Dr. Brewer, the "tormentor" of the caption, the society's lawyer filed a $1,000,000 libel suit against Publisher Hearst and the Herald-American, brought suits in Chicago's Federal District Court on behalf of two other members. This week the society announced that two more suits would be filed, boosting the grand total in damages sought to $2,900,000. If they collect, the plaintiffs said they would use the money to make a movie depicting the medical advances achieved through vivisection. Said...
...faster than at any time since "the slide" began last October. More than half the plants surveyed were either increasing production or holding steady at present rates. In some areas an upturn was apparent: orders had picked up enough to boost production this week in the Youngstown (Ohio) steel district from 72% of capacity...