Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Punchboard Padres. An indictment charging an arm-long list of felonies accused the fake clergy of collecting money under false pretenses. In ten years of canvassing Manhattan for a non-existent shelter, nursery, and boys' camp, said the District Attorney, they had collected more than half a million dollars...
...horrid word censorship was hardly mentioned. Small, grey Edward M. Curran, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, simply called up Look Magazine's distributors, said that he found the March 20 issue offensive, wanted all copies "voluntarily" removed from Washington newsstands. While the subject was being batted back & forth between Look's lawyers and distributors, the word got out. The public quickly gobbled up all copies. Look promised to send no more...
...Congressman from Kentucky, an ex-Justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia, Fred Vinson is still best remembered for his hard, intelligent work on tax bills in the House. As Jimmy Byrnes's successor in OES, he has worked mightily to hold the line against inflation. An easygoing man with a quiet disdain of officious fuss-&-feathers, he was sure to be confirmed by the Senate: he is the archtype of the middle-of-the-road, politically wise New Dealer...
...Miss Mac," as her colleagues call her, has a gift for getting down to earth. She was getting ready last week to shove off on another one of her frequent speaking and inspection trips to Navy bases. This one would take her to the Ninth Naval District, in the Midwest. Navymen, who like people who get down to earth, looked forward to her coming. As far as her own outfit was concerned, Miss Mac expected to find very little out of the way. There had never been any serious troubles among the women of the U.S. Naval Reserves. Now that...
...Treasurer William R. Powell hemming & hawing in for a third of the deal, Smith promptly formed his Mission Nurseries & Florists, Inc. He bought out two flower wholesalers on Los Angeles' Wall Street, opened a retail shop nearby. Then he hustled west to Wilshire Boulevard's breezy shopping district to unveil a retail salon (Hollywood for shop). Next he bought 28,000 square feet of greenhouse and opened another retail store in San Gabriel, Calif., added a four-and-a-half-acre nursery plot in the famed San Fernando Valley. Thus bulwarked from field to chromium counter, Smith...