Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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California's purple-tempered Thomas Francis Ford has had enough. Though he is sure of reelection for the seventh time from his downtown Los Angeles district, he refuses to run. His reason: The U.S. House of Representatives is "the least enlightened and dumbest bunch I ever had anything to do with." Explained 1,000% New Dealer Ford: "I'm damn sick and tired of being in the majority and having the minority run the House...
...Government spokesman; in London. Son of a farm laborer, he started work as a potboy, rose to the London County Council, Parliament, the peerage. Onetime Fabian Socialist, he plumped vigorously for marital reforms, himself remained a bachelor. He chose his title, Plumstead, from part of a London working-class district which first sent him to Parliament...
...green-walled courtroom in Washington's Federal District Court building was small (40 x 38 ft.) for the largest sedition trial in U.S. history.* The ever-present question before the court was big: can a democracy defend itself legally...
...those with an eye on the calendar, the tentative dates for "change to grays" may be of some interest. The First Naval District is a month behind its New York neighbor in the change to dress blue baker (white covers), but we'll narrow the gap on 1 May when official Navy summer hits Massachusetts...
Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald, USN, Commandant of the First Naval District, is expected to review these units as part of his annual inspection tour which will come this spring on May 25 or 27. Final decision on the date is to be made in the near future, when full details as to procedure and timing will also be announced...