Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shelved, and thereby virtually killed, home rule for the District of Columbia, which has been governed by congressional committee for 70 years. ¶ Ignored Secretary George Marshall's urgent request for a three-year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, the nation's most successful experiment in economic internationalism. Instead, it voted to extend the act for one year only, adding a provision which would bring major tariff changes under congressional veto. Senator Arthur Vandenberg announced that when the bill reached the Senate he would do his best to take the veto out again...
...elected to the County Court. A little later came the big break in his career. Brooklyn had been suffering an epidemic of murder; in two years, 20 unsolved cases had collected on the books. Democratic Leader Frank V. Kelly asked him to run for Kings County (Brooklyn) district attorney. He did, and was elected. Two years later he was a famous man; he had exposed and broken the notorious criminal ring, Murder, Inc., had sent seven of its members to the electric chair...
Archeologists fought the idea. Using ancient and often inaccurate maps, they protested that the new tunnel would smash through the unexplored remains of the palace of Marcus Aurelius' wife Faustina. It might even barge into the buried red-light district of the 2nd and 3rd Centuries, A.D. Cried scholarly Dr. Roberto Lanzara: "Builders will strike something of great archeological and historical interest every 100 yards." But the engineers...
Actually, the use of volcanic energy is nothing new in Italy. In a yo-square-mile district around Larderello, steam mixed with chemicals has hissed out of the ground since classical times. It gets its energy from a mass of hot rock that worked its way toward the surface ages ago and has not cooled...
That was in 1914. La Guardia ran and lost in a congressional district where no Republican had won since the party's founding. But he came back again to win the seat twice, to be Congressman from another district five times, and later to become New York City's mayor for a record-breaking twelve years. His posthumous autobiography, The Making of an Insurgent, plainly reflects the weariness he must have felt as he and Writer M. R. Werner knocked it together last year during the final months of La Guardia's fatal illness (cancer). It covers...