Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White House Favorite. They piled into an old Ford, stumped the district together. Lew won handily. In 1926, when Arizona's lone Representative Carl Hayden resigned to run for the Senate, Lew made a bid for higher office...
Douglas took the Roosevelt economy pledge at its face value and set to work paring the budget 25%. He slashed Government workers' pay 15%, sliced $400 million out of veterans' appropriations. When someone once protested that the District of Columbia Commissioners would be "very shocked" by a 25% appropriations cut, Lew replied: "These are shocking times...
That was the architectural price Sears paid to get into the Country Club District in Kansas City, Mo. The District is the second biggest, and, with its Plaza shopping center, the most successful privately run residential development in the U.S. Sears figured the price was small enough for a chance to tap the area's purchasing power. Sears was right. Opening day, 100,000 potential customers came to gawk at the tile and ornamental grillwork. Many went inside and spent a total...
Also indicative of self-slaying, as interpreted by investigators, was a pool of blood over the area where the small bore gun was dropped. "As to why she took off her clothes, your guess is as good as mine," Massachusetts District Attorney James Conniff told reporters...
Unanimous rulings of suicide from State Police pathologists, specially summoned experts, and the District Attorney closed the book last night on the death of Miss Frances Flint, whose bloodstained stripped body was found Thursday evening in Wayland Woods...