Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Idle Whiskey. He became Democratic leader by wresting control of the assembly district from one James A. McQuade, member of a family known as the "thirtyfour starving McQuades." He ran for office (alderman, sheriff, etc.) more than 30 times, and "was sent back with glorious colors" every time. He named his headquarters the Greenpoint People's Regular Democratic Organization, welcomed one & all, but kept his telephone padlocked in a wire cage. He opposed Prohibition, cried bitterly: "It's a shame to allow whiskey to lie idle when there's people at Death's door that might...
...apportioned convention delegates among the states. The rule of thumb: each state sends two delegates for each Representative and each Senator in Congress.† Republicans give a bonus of three delegates to those states which voted Republican in 1944 or 1946; Democrats give a bonus of four. The District of Columbia, territories and possessions get two to six delegates each. Total delegates: Republican, 1094; Democrats, 1234. (Some states split their Democratic delegates into one-half votes, thus increasing the actual number of people entitled to vote...
...Republicans give one seat per Representative only if his district polled at least 1,000 G.O.P. votes in the last election, another if it topped 10,000. Reason: to reduce the convention strength of Southern delegations, which have axes to grind but few votes to deliver...
...most compelling spur to reforms by the new government was the watchfulness of Italy's voters. A middle-aged shopkeeper in Rome's Trastevere slum district put it this way last week: "I voted for De Gasperi because I don't want to see Communists in power. But if we don't get something out of it this time, I'm going to vote for the Communists and see what they...
...district high school, in the sleepy...