Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaigns Franklin Roosevelt had never had an opponent who had known so well how to fight back. Herbert Hoover, flustered, had made lonesome speeches about the preservation of liberty; Alf Landon had swung wildly in all directions; Wendell Willkie, no politician, had gone on crusading for his ideals. Ex-District Attorney Tom Dewey, who had observed their mistakes, had another advantage-he had four more years of the New Deal record to throw at his opponent. In the last fortnight of the campaign he was fighting a cool, confident, hard fight, slugging it out toe to toe with the Champ...
...Broadway, and in Manhattan's garment district, where the crowds were thickest, the ticker tape fell, confetti and torn telephone books swirled down from the windows, pasting the wet streets with wastepaper. The parade had lasted four hours. New York police chiefs estimated the crowd at from...
...dopesters were sure that Hal Styles' goose was cooked-despite the support of Truman and P.A.C.-and that the district would now go Republican...
High Prices. In Chicago's district court, antitrust intervened in a patent-infringement suit brought by the foundation. Last week antitrust charged that the foundation has conspired with 16 companies, including Standard Brands Inc., E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Pet Milk Co., Parke, Davis & Co., to suppress competition in the manufacture & sale of vitamin D. They also, said antitrust, limited the potency of vitamin D used in the widely advertised "enriched" bread, milk and other foods, thus preventing such foods from competing with the regular vitamin-D products...
Only once has the foundation's rule over vitamin D come close to being broken. Year ago, California's southern district court held that the Steenbock patents were invalid because ultraviolet radiation was a nonpatentable "process of nature." The foundation demanded a rehearing; two months ago, the court withdrew its earlier opinion. (Recently the foundation slashed its royalty charges...