Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poet, whose works have appeared in the New Yorker and other magazines, is a member of the Massachusetts PCA executive committee and chairman of its eighth district...
...more than doubled the number of playgrounds and swimming pools. Among the items on his agenda: a huge boys' club for the city's worst slum, the "Irish Channel"; the rebuilding of old Shakespeare Park in the heart of the Negro district...
Anger & Ambition. Three generations later, in 1923, the relationship between Kalyanu's grandson, Jodh Singh, and the new deputy commissioner, Hugh Upton, was more complicated. The district of Garhwal remained the same: the peasants tilled their terraced fields of millet on the mountainsides, drove their sheep and goats to the high, flowering pastures in the spring, sent their women out to gather sticks for the winter fires in the smoky stone huts. Jodh Singh, however, enjoyed the privileges won by his grandfather; he had been to Lucknow University, and he felt it his mission in life to fight...
Young (36) Tokyo District Court Judge Yoshitada Yamaguchi was an honest man. When his wife pleaded with him to sell some clothes and family possessions to buy food on the black market, he replied: "How can one who judges others do any black marketing?" When his father sent extra food from Kyushu island, he turned it all over to his family. He and his wife subsisted, precariously, on thin soup and corn meal gruel. Their food rations went to their two young sons...
Solid Consolidation. In Wilmington, Del., a U.S. district court approved the purchase of Los Angeles' Consolidated Steel Corp. by Columbia Steel Co., a U.S. Steel subsidiary. The Department of Justice had argued that the $8,000,000 deal would stop healthy competition in steel fabricating in the west (TIME, March 3), but the court could...