Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cards with red lettering went out to the unhappy 1,500: "Pay day is postponed until further notice." That would also apply to Senators, but not to Congressmen, who had already drawn their monthly checks. But members of both houses were cheered to hear that the Senate's District Committee agreed with the House: the 15% rent increase which Congress had voted for the nation would not be permitted in Washington...
Died. Joseph Jefferson Mansfield, 86, gentle, mild-mannered Representative from Texas' rich ninth district (Galveston and environs), the oldest member of Congress, in which he had served continuously for the past 30 years, 26 of them in a wheel chair; in Bethesda...
Everybody Else but Me. Only in Washington were tenants unharried. District of Columbia rent control was set up originally under a separate law which does not expire until the end of the year. A week after the Congress approved the bill for the rest of the nation, the House had quietly voted to extend the D.C. law, without change, until March 1948. The bill contained no 15% increase for landlords, no permission to raise the rents of permanent hotel guests. Many Congressmen live in hotels...
...Washington landlords were clamoring for the same concessions other landlords had won. This week the House's hold-the-line-in-D.C. bill landed with a thud in the Senate. The man on the spot was the District Committee chairman, Delaware's down-the-line Republican C. Douglass Buck...
...country road near Kempen in the British zone (the story went), a wasted woman struggled under a heavy rucksack toward the Ruhr. Pastor X stopped her, guessed what she was carrying, said: "You have been lucky to find so many potatoes, my good woman. Many visitors come to our district from the Ruhr and return empty-handed...