Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mercado said he got the $500-and $600 more just before he was to testify at the hearing. He had instructions, he said, to tell the board he worked against the union of his own volition. Billingsley promptly suspended him. Just as promptly, Manhattan's District Attorney Frank Hogan called for minutes of the hearing to "determine whether there was subornation of perjury...
...Garter. At week's end, Sherm was waiting to fight back, just as though he didn't have a couple of other legal brawls on his hands. In the U.S. district court in New York, he was being sued for $100,000 by one Raymond Pillois of Paris, who thought that would be a reasonable fee for getting Billingsley an exclusive contract as American agent for a French perfume. In Baltimore, for a change, Sherm was suing. Once more in his career he was trying to get someone to stop using the name Stork Club...
Some fell prey to a great, dull hopelessness. In Manhattan's garment district, where it often takes 15 minutes to go a block through trucks, cabs and darting pushcarts, a taxi driver said: "We're beat. We got expressions just like people in Europe. It used to be you could get into a fight, but now even truck drivers take the attitude: 'If you wanna hit me, hit me.' They don't even get out to look at a fender...
...Jewish side, part of the underground army Haganah came out into the open to protect Jews from Arab attacks. (This week, near Tel Aviv, Arabs in ambush killed the Haganah district commander, Joshua Globerman.) Jews set up twelve recruiting centers in Palestine. Increased immigration (present limit fixed by the British: 1,500 a month) would increase Jewish strength. The British government considered transferring 16,000 Jews to Palestine from Cyprus before Feb. 1, admitting 10,000 Jews a month to Palestine thereafter. U.S. officials in Germany, Austria and Italy began planning the movement of 6,250 Jewish D.P.s a month...
...Nichols, whose holdings are conservatively estimated at $15,000,000, lives with his wife in a mansion in the Country Club District (his two sons are in the building business), but he still spends most of his days and three evenings a week behind his office desk on city-planning projects. J.C. thinks they are of prime importance because "when you rear children in a good neighborhood, they will go out and fight Communism...