Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well, after I'd got all this sorted out I came back to see about living in our old place myself. Every time there was a new bomb, and they were thick on our district, we had to shoot away from the walls, since any heavy concussion would have brought them down. So I talked it over with the blokes next door and we began to wonder about the houses across the road-they still had roofs and the floors weren't sagging. The tenants had buggered off somewhere when the flying bombs started coming down. We went...
This report was written for TIME by Captain Maurice S. Sheehy, District Chaplain, Pearl Harbor. Chaplain Sheehy is on wartime leave of absence from his teaching post at the Department of Religious Education of the Catholic University of America...
...County Kerry immigrant, Tom Curran was born in Manhattan's old Tenth Ward, the overwhelmingly Democratic district which produced Al Smith. Teddy Roosevelt was his boyhood hero. He put himself through Fordham's law school after army service in World War I and then worked his way steadily upward in New York Republican politics to the job of secretary of state and the inner circle of young men around the fast rising Tom Dewey...
...soft breeze blew from the wrong direction. A ripe stench, something like that of Algiers' Casbah district, was wafted into town. The enraged selectmen, prodded by public opinion, quickly got a court injunction halting WFA from planting the four remaining carloads...
Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's dynamic, impish 65-year-old Lord Privy Seal, visited his old Canadian boyhood haunts in the Newcastle district of New Brunswick. Remembered by old neighbors in Newcastle as plain Mr. Aitken, he thanked his good friend, William Corbett, a grocery clerk, for sending to London his favorite recipe for buckwheat flapjacks, called on an aged recluse who writes him a weekly Newcastle newsletter, went salmon fishing...