Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publicize Navy Day, Rear Admiral Monroe Kelly, commandant of the Third Naval District, turned over his command for the day to James F. Rappaport, 14, of The Bronx. Settling back in the admiral's chair, young Rappaport announced: "When I grow up I want to be a lawyer...
...credit agencies were more conservative. Said John J. Schumann Jr., whose General Motors Acceptance Corp. last year advanced $411 million on the sale of automobiles and other GM products: "It behooves . . . banks and other financing agencies to use their heads as never before." At a meeting of the District of Columbia Bankers' Association the Federal Reserve Board's M. S. Szymczak warned that if bankers permitted the credit structure to get topheavy, as it had in the '20s, "you will again be the scapegoats...
...give & take, the long-heralded battle between the Government and Wall Street's investment bankers was finally joined last week. Thanks to newspaper stories that "leaked out" to Washington reporters in the last month, Wall Street was not surprised by the civil suit filed in a New York district court by the antitrust division of the Department of Justice. It charged 17 of the biggest U.S. investment banking firms*-and the Investment Bankers' Association of America-with conspiracy to monopolize the securities business...
...From Dasuya in Hoshiarpur district came a mass of 114,000 Moslems, which branched into lesser columns and slowly diminished in the direction of Bahawalpur State...
There was no mistaking the splashy flowered dresses, the flashy painted faces of the "first class" girls from Peiping's red light district. More than 300 of them ("tripping daintily by like so many pretty birds " one newspaper reported) flocked into the Great Continent Theater. Why this concentration of purchasable beauty, onlookers asked each other, and so early in the morning...