Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard-working senatorial traditions of Pat Harrison and John Sharp Williams. John Stennis, born on a farm in Kemper County, had made a bright record for himself at Mississippi Agricultural & Mechanical College and at the University of Virginia law school. He had made an equally bright record as legislator, district attorney and judge. He has never had a civil decision reversed...
Elsewhere election results added up to no trends. Of three congressional seats, the G.O.P. filled vacancies in Ohio and Indiana which had been previously held by Republicans, and in New York the Democrats kept control of the 14th District. Thousands of state legislature and city elections seesawed to a near standoff, with a slight edge for the Democrats, who registered gains in Indiana, Pennsylvania and New York...
...Bucharest's smart Parcu Filipescu section had something to talk about. A woman as Foreign Minister of Rumania, the first to serve in such a post anywhere! And such a woman! Although Ana Pauker, mother of three and self-made widow, lived among them in the Parcu district, kept a lakeside villa at Snagov, and rode in the swankest limousines (bullet-proofed), she had but lately "arrived," in a way most ominous for her neighbors...
...save face, Greeks do not like to admit how badly off they are. The young prefect of a district described to me how his town was virtually encircled, how its garrison was outnumbered, how nearby villages were raided nightly, how he was at a total loss to feed and house all the thousands of refugees who had flocked in to the relative safety of the town. He painted a hopeless picture. Finally a British correspondent with me commented that, judging by the way the prefect talked, the guerrillas were winning the battle in this area...
Shortly after 4 o'clock, with Everett police already in attendance, Dr. Andrew S. Guthrie of Medford, medical examiner of the Northern District of Middlesex County, pronounced William Armstrong a suicide...