Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Regimented Communists? The result not only flabbergasted New York's newspapers and professional politicians, but virtually sent Ed Flynn into limbo. Leo Isacson gathered up 22,697 votes to Propper's 12,578-in a district where A.L.P. registration is only about...
...Bronx's 24th Congressional District fronts on the filthy, fast-running East River. It is a disheartening area of crowded walk-up tenements, blackened, blind-walled factories and littered streets. Its population is about 55% Jewish, 18% Negro; Irish, Italians and Puerto Ricans make up almost all the rest...
Until last week, Bronx Democratic Boss Ed Flynn's machine had controlled the 24th District with professional ease. In 1946 Flynn sent his man to Congress with better than 15,000 votes over his nearest opponent, the American Labor Party candidate. Then Flynn's Congressman moved up to the New York Supreme Court bench and a special election was called to fill his seat...
...young (37), good-looking and aggressive labor lawyer named Leo Isacson, who was born on Manhattan's lower East Side, served a term in the New York State Assembly, had never met Wallace until the campaign. The left-wingers sent their doorbell-ringers all over the district, harangued the voters in English, Yiddish and Spanish. Their literature snowed under the other parties' polite handbills. They hired more and louder sound trucks...
Just before sunrise, an armored car and "three trucks, all manned by men in British uniform, drove into Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem's Jewish shopping district. A suspicious British police patrol followed, found the trucks abandoned and spewing smoke. Seconds later they disintegrated with a blast that crumpled nearby hotels, apartments and shops, ripped out windows for a mile around. In Ben Yehuda's rubble at least 52 lay dead, more than 100 wounded...