Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the Massachusetts Democratic bosses were off watching ball-games this summer, a shrewd young Progressive named Walter O'Brien moved into the tenth Congressional district and snatched the nomination unopposed, thereby getting the nominal support of two parties and creating a hot battle for the Republican incumbent, Christian A. Herter...
Although O'Brien officially holds the Democratic nomination, his connections with the far left have resulted in his repudiation by many of the Democrats in his district. This has led him, either through choice or through necessity, to emphasize his Progressivism and use the Democratic nomination only for purposes of snaring straight ticket votes. Nevertheless, O'Brien rolled up a primary vote of almost 20,000, which Progressives consider very significant in view of the fact that he was unopposed. They feel that since 90 percent of the voters in the tenth district are in low middle or low income...
...Israel recently an American ex-Army captain tried to marry a Jewess. A rabbi refused to officiate (because the captain was not a Jew); ditto a district commissioner (because he was not a British subject). He was turned down by an Anglican church in Jaffa (because the bride was not a Christian) and by a Greek Orthodox priest (who considered both outside his flock). A ship captain said he could perform the ceremony by taking them on a special trip beyond the three-mile limit. But when he quoted his price, the couple decided it would be cheaper...
Tungsten Cartel. A federal district court found General Electric, two of its subsidiaries, and three of their officials guilty in an antitrust suit of conspiring with Germany's Krupp between 1927 and 1940 to monopolize world trade in tungsten and other hard metals. G.E., planning an appeal, claimed that "the law applicable to situations of this kind is in a state of utter chaos...
Lapses. In Vienna, Friedrich Koch admitted in court that he had three wives but pleaded for clemency on the grounds that he had "a very poor memory." In Fresno, Calif., Francis J. Bressi, 24, threw himself on the district attorney's mercy with a cry for help: because he "appealed to their motherly instinct," he said, he had married ten women in the last five years...