Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With all Harvard Naval Training Units competing for top honors, Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald, USN, Commandant of the First Naval District, will conduct the full Brigade Review this Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock on Soldiers Field...
...liberals, laborites and left-wingers thought they knew other reasons. Had he run again, Dies was in for the toughest fight of his life. Thousands of new workers had poured into the oil refineries and shipyards of Beaumont, Port Arthur and Orange in Dies's war-booming Second District. The C.I.O. Political Action Committee, privately taking credit for the defeat of the No. 2 Dies Committeeman, Joe Starnes, in Alabama a fortnight ago, was getting its Second District workers' poll taxes paid...
...York City is about to send its first Negro to Congress. The Congressman may be a woman. That the new Congressman will be a Negro is almost certain, because a newly carved Congressional District will include all of Harlem and not much else. But if the woman candidate is to win, she will have to beat one of the slickest spellbinders Harlem has ever produced...
...press conference (with drinks from the pantry-bar in his four-story Harlem house) Dr. Powell said: "I will represent the Negro first, and all other Americans next." Quickly Sara Speaks, who knows that there are also about 31,000 Irish, Italians, Puerto Ricans and Spaniards in the new district, said: "My major concern will be for all of the people of my district...
...days after Pearl Harbor, RID's Portland, Ore. listening post picked up a suspicious signal, communicated it to Washington. Within six minutes, seven Adcocks throughout the country, fixed it somewhere in the District of Columbia. Next day, when the illegal transmitter came on again, RID tracked it straight to the German Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue...