Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Double Dues. With that off his chest, the Champ turned to union politics. Some delegates had the temerity to demand the right to choose their district officials by a vote of the membership. John L. swiftly squelched that move (21 of his union's 31 districts are ruled by Lewis appointees). It was just a waste of time, said the Great Man, to talk about such things; he could be relied upon to choose competent officials and, if any of them "failed to do the right thing," he would send them back to digging coal...
Last week in the Federal District Court in Los Angeles, a U.S. citizen was sentenced to die as a traitor to the U.S. In all U.S. history, only a handful of traitors have heard that sentence. None has actually been executed as a traitor...
...pronouncing sentence, Federal District Judge William C. Mathes declared grimly: "His life, if spared, would not be worth living. The only worthwhile use for the life of a traitor is to serve as an example to those of weak moral fiber who might hereafter be tempted to commit treason against the U.S." Unless a higher court reverses the verdict or the President intervenes, he will die in the San Quentin gas chamber...
...Department of Legal Medicine has aided Massachusetts law-enforcement agencies for many years. When a county or district examiner in the state suspects homicide in a death, he calls the department, which dispatches pathologists, chemists and firearms experts to the scene of the crime...
Tuckered Tucker. Though Preston Tucker said he had made only 28 cars, he still had $8,446,206 in current assets (against $2,237,402 current liabilities), he told a U.S. district court in Chicago, in a stockholder's suit for receivership. But the biggest listed asset turned out to be $3,649,770 in promissory notes which Tucker dealers had signed to buy franchises. He listed only $1,888,749 in cash and Government bonds left, out of the approximate $20 million he had raised on stock and franchises...