Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...propaganda scheme. The Commies could hardly come out and say they were against the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. Nor could they attack such backers of the train as Phil Murray, Bill Green or the Girl Scouts. So, in a memo from the party's educational headquarters, district leaders were instructed to tell whoever would listen that the "key backers" of the Freedom Train are "reactionary big businessmen" with a "demagogic purpose." Leaders were told to organize tours through the train only under "prominent progressives...
...months ago, Democrats and their amateurish ally, the C.I.O.'s Political Action' Committee, decided that the special congressional election in Pennsylvania's Eighth District was made to order as a 1948 testing ground. The Taft-Hartley Act, they thought, would be the issue...
They went in with their eyes and mouths wide open and with little chance to win. The Eighth District is grumpy old Joe Grundy's home territory, one of the best-watered G.O.P. fields in the country. But it attracted the Democratic donkeys like an acre of fresh clover. The district is about evenly divided between labor and rural areas. And the Republican candidate was the man who had guided Pennsylvania's version of the Taft-Hartley Act through its legislature: slender, 37-year-old Franklin Lichtenwalter, Speaker of the state's House of Representatives. The Democrats...
...workers picked up their copies of the company's newspaper, the Blast, they blinked at his latest example of understanding. The Blast looked more like a union handout than a company house-organ. On the front page was a play-by-play factual account of the convention of District 38 of the steelworkers. The issue carried pictures of the delegates and articles of union interest written by union members...
...criminal, then in trying to extricate himself from the underworld. Nick is paroled from Sing Sing when his wife's suicide, his love for his small daughters, and a partner's treachery cause him to turn state's evidence. Thereafter he belongs, body & soul, to Assistant District Attorney D'Angelo (Brian Donlevy). His liberty depends on his cooperativeness as a stool pigeon. His life, and the safety of his children and his second wife (attractively played by newcomer Coleen Gray) depend much too precariously on secrecy and on police protection. Tommy Udo (Richard Widmark), against whom...