Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rica, their wives and Mrs. Roosevelt flew in for lunch and the afternoon. Lieut. Commander Franklin Roosevelt Jr. dropped by for dinner one evening. The President kept paper work to a minimum, but even so had to sign a lot of papers-including commissions for notaries public in the District of Columbia...
This review will provide good practice for the full Brigade Review on May 25, in which the all Harvard Naval Training Schools will participate. At this time it is expected that Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald, USN, Commandant of the First Naval District, will be the reviewing officer...
...hour later Wayne Taylor emerged, informed newsmen that Sewell Avery had bluntly refused to turn over his plant. Messrs. Taylor and Carusi seemed nonplussed. They telephoned Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones in Washington, huddled with U.S. District Attorney J. Albert Woll in Chicago's old Post Office. Presently they returned, accompanied by U.S. Deputy Marshal William H. McDonnell and eight gun-toting deputies. Facing the armed squadron, Sewell Avery politely told Marshal McDonnell that he would not surrender. Then a call went out to Camp Skokie Valley, just north of Chicago...
Thought he: Southern Rhodesia (pop. 1,446,000; whites, 78,560) has not enough of the "right" (i.e., white, enterprising) people. In Britain's grimy, industrial Lancashire (pop. 5,039,455) an obscure district councilman named E. L. Leeming came up with a suggestion that 500,000 Lancastrians should be moved to the uncrowded Rhodesian spaces. Sir Godfrey embraced the idea, made in Plan...
...Yanks in the Orient is Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell's desire that the U.S. public understand his theater's physical barriers and painful supply problem. He called for some professional radiomen. He got Lieut. Finis Farr, writer, late of the MARCH OF TIME and Mr. District Attorney, and Lieut. Bert Parks, ex-CBS-NBC announcer, and a mobile recorder. Lieut. Colonel Paul Jones, onetime Don Lee, Mutual Networker, who had been with Stilwell for two years, was made head of the project...