Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Departing for a European vacation, Manhattan's District Attorney Frank S. Hogan said: "Anyone who commits a crime while I'm away is an ill-mannered person...
...Virginia, the first Republican primary in the state's history was held in the eighth congressional district, across the Potomac from Washington. Virginia Republicans, who traditionally play footie with Senator Harry Byrd's Democratic courthouse cronies, put up no candidates for local offices. Winner of their nomination for Congress: Tyrrell Krum, 48, conductor of a column on veterans' affairs for the Washington Times-Herald, who will try to pry labor-baiting, reactionary Howard Smith from his well-entrenched (18 years) congressional seat...
Last week the District of Columbia Health Department went on the air to do something about it, broadcast over radio station WTTOP an interview recorded in a venereal disease clinic. A woman's voice quavered a bit as she answered the intimate questions. Had she ever thought about gonorrhea? "No, I had not thought about the disease very much, only in the way that one thinks about leprosy." It turned out that the patient, an unidentified office worker, did have gonorrhea...
...first woman student was admitted in 1920. C.U. is also the only university in the District of Columbia to admit Negroes on an equal basis with whites...
...Mass. into a national institution. Fuller made his brushes by night, sold them by day. In 1906 he moved to Hartford, got a helper. When retail stores refused to handle his brushes, he got his first salesmen. He has taken a paternal interest in them ever since; all his district managers are former salesmen. When son Howard left college (Harvard and Duke), he peddled brushes for a year to learn the business...