Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration followed up its seizure by asking a federal district court in Chicago in effect to legalize the President's Act by sanctioning it. Attorney General Francis Biddle, who painfully remembers his last clash with Avery, was not quite sure how to regard Avery's present position. In the course of one short press conference, Biddle referred once to Avery as "perfectly harmless," a few minutes later was describing him as "a tough old guy who will stick to his guns." At week's end, irreconcilable old Sewell Avery trumpeted that a court test of the President...
...elected. Promptly the pesky Tories saw another chance to overturn King's plans by beating his key Cabinet man, nominated a solid local citizen, popular Mayor Garfield Case. Their election issue: McNaughton's avowed opposition to conscription. Last week they were preparing to plaster the whole district with posters saying: "Do We or Don't We [want conscription]? Vote Yes. Vote Case...
...Antonio's South Side, near where the middle-class residential district shades off into slums, a juvenile gang fight raged. The "Harlandale Gang" had run afoul of the "South Sans." A band of "Tex-Mexes" (boys of Mexican ancestry) poured in from the West Side to join the battle. The police alarm was serious. In war-booming San Antonio juvenile crimes had rocketed in a single year from 10% to 50% of the cases on the police docket, and there had been three juvenile murders. When the battle was over property had been damaged and no less than...
...Writer George S. Mitchell, Southern director of the C.I.O.-P.A.C., told how a white woman in a small Virginia town encouraged "white supremacy" and discouraged Negro would-be voters from registering by making the registration booth the parlor of her home in an all-white district while a husky husband and a large dog looked...
...helmet, and wrote a book about it (With Naked Foot). After a spell as a reporter in London, footloose Emily's flight from the domestic atmosphere of Winnetka took her in 1935 to newspaper work in Shanghai and an unconventional apartment in the city's red-light district. She stayed in the Orient long enough to contribute numerous Chinese vignettes to the New Yorker, write a book about China's most famous women (The Soong Sisters), have an illegitimate child by the chief of the British Military Intelligence in Hong Kong. Last year the Japs sent...