Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stepped in to fight the suit for Farmer Hulbert. Argued the County: state law compels it to auction off public property to the highest and best bidder. OPA's action was a clear invasion of States' rights. Last week District Judge James W. Porter ruled otherwise. His reasoning: the Price Control Act is an emergency war measure. "The spirit of the Act would be violated, its purposes thwarted and its enforcement thrown into confusion by a holding that the Act does not cover the transactions of 48 state governments, thousands of counties, municipalities, school districts...
Dean M. Gillespie, 59, victor by a narrow 3,000 votes, was the first Republican elected from Colorado's First Congressional District since 1932. He campaigned with a splash: big billboards, solid newspaper support, and batteries of girls telephoning the citizenry. He hammered at one issue-New Deal bureaucracy. Democrats got a slow start, waiting for their wounded hero, 30-year-old Major Carl E. Wuertele (pronounced Wert-a-lee), to get his Army discharge (TIME, Feb. 7). They never did get rolling. War workers with good wages were apathetic; the party "ins" were soft. Groused one Democratic campaigner...
Last week's polygamy crackdown was prompted by an appeal by Mormon leaders themselves. The polygamists' prosecutor is a tall young Mormon, U.S. Assistant District Attorney John S. Boyden. Since there is no U.S. law against polygamy (except in territories), Boyden invoked the Mann Act, the Lindbergh kidnapping law (against a group who took a 14-year-old girl polygamist to a "lambing ground"), the prohibition against mailing obscene literature, etc. Basis for the raids was a recent test case in which the Government sent Polygamists John and Lola Zenz to prison for terms of five...
...Friday the U.S. Eighth Air Force flicked a feint at Berlin with P-38 Lightning fighters. Next day the Eighth threw a half-punch. Heavy bombers raided targets in eastern Germany and one formation of Fortresses dropped bombs on the Berlin district, for the first U.S. raid on the battered capital of the Reich...
...Cure. In Nashville, a moonshiner's prison sentence was commuted when he wrote a letter to the District Judge: "All I hear is the boys talking of robbing banks and cracking safes and killing people. That sure gets on my nerves. If you will let me out of here, I'll never make no more whiskey...