Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This district has always been my home," he answered. He seemed surprised at this question...
...investigate all colleges and schools to discover whether any members of their faculties were subversive. The State Board of Education would have the power to cancel the tax exemption of a school that did not dismiss a suspected faculty member. If a teacher were actually indicted by the district attorney and convicted by the courts for advocating violent overthrow of the government, the institution which employed him would lose its charter. New York State's Lusk Laws, passed in 1921, are the only precedent for this sort of legislation. Characterized by Governor Al Smith as "vicious" and intolerant," they were...
...taken with them and proud to be in their company." In this cozy setup, John M. ("Cockeye") Dunn was a big man. He didn't belong to Joe Ryan's union but he ate at Joe's dinners, and his Greenwich Village mob ran the Chelsea District piers. Everybody knew Johnny Dunn was a killer, but nobody could pin it on him. During the war some small brass in the Army even tried to get him out of stir (he was doing time for coercion) because his services as a transportation expert were much in demand. Furious...
...general election was not due until next year, but last week in London's factory and residential district of South Hammersmith, both parties had a chance to test their strength in a preview of greater things to come. Each contestant put everything he had into the battle...
...hours a day, often accompanied by his wife, the Tory candidate stumped his district, tramping streets, ringing doorbells, holding press conferences and speaking at one rally after another (100 in the last ten days of the campaign). To back his cause and secure Hammersmith, Lord Woolton ("Lord Woof-Woof" to the Laborites) put the whole machinery of the national party into high gear. Money, pamphlets and speakers poured into the district. From almost every street corner Tory sound trucks and mobile movie units blared out statistics compiled at the Conservative Political Education Center. Telephone boxes, butcher shops, dance halls, pubs...