Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fine was reduced to $710,000 by the Supreme Court. By federal law the District of Columbia got 60%, the Federal Treasury...
...certain number of Assembly seats are assigned to each electoral district, according to its size. The total number of votes cast (e.g., 500,000), is divided by the total number of seats (e.g., 10), giving an electoral quotient (50,000). A party polling 160,000 votes of the total in its district can fill three quotients, i.e., get three seats. The spare 10,000 votes are diverted to a national pool where they are merged with spare votes from other districts until there are enough to fill another quotient...
...Coat for Cumshaw. But the ultimate protest did not take place in the Assembly Hall. It worked itself out in a cheap hotel in a grubby lane of Nanking's crowded red-light district (nicknamed "Confucius' Temple...
Other outdoor scenes have already been shot this Spring, Alden continued, especially in the Charles slum district behind Scollay Square...
...This is the first time," says Miller, referring to the present play, "The Survivors", that a Club production will be presented for its entire run in the downtown district...