Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most men left their offices without protest. People who had bitterly denounced the action committees a few days before were now happy if they were allowed to join them. Throughout the country there was an unseemly rush.to join the Communist Party; district party workers labored over piles of applications. (Gottwald announced that party membership had risen to 1,400,000 from 1,250,000.) There was no resistance because there was no hope. The people might have resisted had Benes moved; Benes might have resisted, had the people moved...
College graduates throughout the United States are eligible for the awards. Special district boards will soon be set up, with a local office in Boston to screen candidates. Applicants will be considered on the basis of their personalities as well as their previous record, while a student's purpose in attending a foreign school will also weigh heavily in the decision...
...studied law, built up a successful practice in Metz. When Lorraine was returned to France in 1919, he was elected deputy from his district, and has been reelected ever since. The first to "discover" him was wartime Premier Paul Reynaud, who made him Undersecretary for Refugees in 1940. At one point during the war, Schuman was kept in solitary confinement by the Germans. "It did not leave me bad memories," he says. "I meditated...
Three staccato shots startled the sleepy residents of Wade's Hill Road in London's Southgate district. The listeners, and all London, were even more startled to learn that the gunfire had killed unarmed* Police Constable Nat Edgar-the first bobby to be shot in metropolitan London in 26 years...