Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major General Bennett E. Meyers, wartime No. 2 purchasing officer for the Army Air Forces, had bet his hand like a man trying to make a pair of deuces look like a full house. But when his hand was called in Washington's Federal District Court, he folded; on trial for procuring perjury he declined to testify in his own defense...
...Truman's policy toward the Hory Land would change between now and November. Flynn added, it could be assumed "without question" that the Democrats will again control the district...
...murder of gentle Senator Mauro Angulo Hernandez put many a Mexican in an eye-for-an-eye mood. To curb such barbarism, cried Supreme Court Justice Luis G. Corona, the death penalty for murder, outlawed in the federal district since 1929, ought to be reestablished. Said the conservative Excelsior. "Society is handcuffed before the criminal, and the prestige of the country demands stronger methods. The [Porfirio] Díaz dictum-catch in the act, kill on the spot-unquestionably yielded better results. ... It is urgently necessary to teach a lesson to potential murderers by means of heavy punishment." Abreast...
Boss Frank Gannett fumed that the state needed a law "putting newspapermen on a legal par with the clergy in protecting those who confide." In going after Clarke and Leonard, said Gannett, District Attorney Stanley B. Johnson "has established a reputation for swift and ruthless action. It is to be hoped he shows a like alacrity in disposing of gamblers and gambling institutions." At week's end, Johnson showed no such alacrity. The only other arrests were two gamblers, their pockets stuffed with policy tickets. They were fined and turned loose...
...help support his mother, he took his first and only parish, in a dingy district of Detroit. Niebuhr had intended to stay a couple of years. Instead, he stayed 13. His congregation on the first Sunday consisted of 18 souls. To eke out his salary ($50 a month), Niebuhr began writing, and out of necessity discovered his vocation...