Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest and noisiest sedition trial in U.S. history ended last week. On the evening of the 102nd day, U.S. District Judge Edward Clayton Eicher, 65, went home, died of a heart attack. No one in Washington doubted that a ludicrously undignified trial had hastened the death of a scrupulously dignified judge. An ardent New Dealer, a onetime Iowa Congressman (1933-38) and SEChairman (1941-42), Judge Eicher had done his amiable best with a clumsy Justice Department mass indictment which accused 30 defendants of conspiring to Nazify the U.S. For more than seven .months he had banged a tireless, ineffectual...
...boss of the newly organized All-America Conference; 3) Harold ("Red") Grange, elected president of the also-projected U.S. League. Still to be heard from was Trans-America, the third of the embryo leagues (TIME, Oct. 9)-which could reach ex-Horsemen Don Miller at his U.S. district attorney office in Cleveland and Harry Stuhldreher at the University of Wisconsin, where he coaches football...
Many other phases of urban planning are covered in the far-reaching plan, including an extensive new park development, a re-designing of the market district, and extensive reforms in municipal taxation...
...tonic for the faint-hearted, the thriller consists of a running battle of wits between the Professor and his partner in crime, the very determined District Attorney (Raymond Massey), and the murdered man's blackmailing body-guard (Dan Duryea). "Deus ex machina" solves the apparently impossible situation in an ending of which the studio (International) seems unduly proud...
Dziepatowski was 21 or 22. Through other members of the underground he got Karski false papers. Karski was now Kucharski, born in Luki, in poor health, a primary-school teacher. He was sent to a photographer in a poor district, given a photograph that was enough like him to be claimed as his, but vague enough to be disowned if necessary. For two weeks Karski waited, memorizing the new story of his life...