Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denounced Congressman Ham Fish for antiSemitism. Fish, campaigning for reelection in New York's agth District, had said that Jews favor the New Deal. Said Dewey: "Anyone who injects a racial or religious issue into a political campaign is guilty of a disgraceful, un-American act." Fish, also denounced in newspaper ads signed by such intellectual constituents as Playwright Maxwell Anderson, threatened a $250,000 libel suit against Anderson. Wendell Willkie offered to defend Anderson free...
...well-educated (a Rhodes scholar, he was president of the University of Arkansas from 1939 to 1941), handsome, well-to-do and as friendly as an Arkansas hound pup. Two years ago Bill Fulbright shook hands into Congress by "visiting" with practically everybody in a ten-county Ozark mountain district...
...northeast, half the time over Jap-occupied areas of China. Over the Gulf of Chihli, in hazy weather, she lost her formation. But at 11:11 a.m. the target was in sight. Other squadrons had marked it with two great fires, one in the midst of the factory district...
Other American troops have moved into our district, and we gave them a very cool reception, but it has gradually dawned on us that it's only the minority which behaves badly, and that all along we've been judging the whole by the actions...
Like a Tornado. The wartime U.S.A. that Dos Passes saw on his trip was unaware of its own achievements. In Port land, Me., the business district looked as if a tornado had struck it. "Everywhere litter and trash, small gimcrack stores, small unswept lunchrooms. . . . There were signs and cigaret ads instead of goods in the shop windows. The shipyard workers lived in half-slums, in trailer camps, in rows of prefabricated dwellings. When the shifts changed, the dense black crowd poured out through the gates, their faces gray and yellowish, their visored caps pulled over their foreheads, their thick clothes...