Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Deferrari was forced to quit school to help support his family. In Boston, whose North End slums were all that he knew, young John took up father Giovanni's career. A fruit basket on his arm, he started peddling apples and oranges in the State Street financial district...
Near Rohri in Pakistan several hundred Moslems stopped a train, hauled out 13 Sikhs, clubbed them to death with hockey sticks. An Indian Army courier told how, in the remote Shakirgarh district of Pakistan, a small Hindu military force had found only 1,500 known survivors from a community of 120,000 Sikhs. He estimated that over 100,000 had been butchered, caught between a howling Moslem mob and the flooded Ravi river...
...Acquaintance. Before making their raid, the police and Assistant District Attorney Francis Xavier O'Brien waited until they were sure that the illegal operations were well underway. One afternoon last week 15 cops, some disguised as carpenters, others as moving men, surrounded the building and jimmied their way into apartment 36. In the kitchen, turned into a well-appointed operating room, they found an old acquaintance: Dr. Leopold W. A. Brandenburg, 61, of Union City, N.J., who has been having police trouble, off & on, since...
...thrown into the canal that the canal actually had a pinkish color for a day after. Moslem refugees told how Sikhs stripped and paraded Moslem women through the streets, raped them and then killed them. British correspondents reported having seen dead, naked women lying about villages of the Amritsar district...
Nursery Rhymes. After the concert, in the Harris' neat, flower-print-curtained apartment in Chicago's South Side Negro district, Margaret couldn't decide what to do next. She tried playing ball with her father, a railroad machinist; then she went to work on some gum, and showed reporters her dolls. Said she, eyes wide: "There were an awful lot of people there, and at first I was afraid. But I just went over to my piano, and then I wasn't afraid any more." How did it feel when the audience clapped? "Felt good-real...