Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George N. Barker, USN, Commanding Officer of Naval Training Schools here, announced yesterday that he would be detached from this station sometime before the end of the week. He will be relieved by Captain Chester H. J. Keppler, USN, present Director of Naval Officer Procurement for the First Naval District, following which Captain Barker will report to the Commandant of the First Naval District and be granted a sick leave of indefinite duration...
Twin Falls County prepared an appeal to Idaho's Supreme Court. Farmer Hulbert went serenely about his spring chores. Having deposited $1,050 with the district court, he has been using the tractor all through the legal fight...
...Willkie and the potent Old Guard support of Tom Dewey. Stassenites had candidates entered for 22 of Wisconsin's 24 convention seats but would be grateful for half a dozen won. The Stassenites had muffed their opportunity to enter for the other two seats-which are in a district sympathetic to Stassen, near the Minnesota border-because their hand-picked candidates negligently waited to file until it was too late...
...lost all but one of the past eight Congressional by-elections, were taking care not to lose the next one. They were rushing one of their top-drawer attractions, Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, off to the Oklahoma hills to help swing next week's Second Congressional District election their way. Normally this would be considered sending...
...last time a Republican won in the Second District was in 1920. Democratic majorities are as normal a product of the Second as corn and cotton. But in 1942 Democrat Jack Nichols squeaked through to re-election by only 365 votes. The Republican who almost beat him in 1942 is the man the Democrats are worried about now: Edwin O. Clark...