Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Algeria. In the oldest of France's North African possessions, and the most "assimilated" to French culture, there is an independence movement too. Fiery, 54-year-old Messali Hadj, Algerian Arab nationalist, toured the restless Kabylie district in March, repeated in village after village: "For 116 years we have been under the French yoke. Still we sleep on the ground, we wear only a simple gandourah, we walk barefoot, and most of us go three or four days without eating a piece of cake...
...late Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom he met in wartime, President Tubman wants to give Liberia's lagging political institutions a new deal, has already sponsored such progressive measures as votes for women and an income tax. Ranging far from his capital, Monrovia, Tub man keeps an eye on district commissioners and frontier forces, sometimes sacks them for "malfeasance, misfeasance and unfeasance...
...satisfactory school district, as the commission defines it, has a minimum of 1,200 pupils, a maximum of 10.000. Each school in the district should have at least 300 students, who travel not more than 45 minutes or an hour to get there.* In elementary schools there should be at least one teacher per grade; in high schools, at least twelve teachers in all (some of them specialists: music, art, etc.). The commission would call no district satisfactory unless 90% of the students stuck until high-school graduation ("Farm boys & girls get from two to four years' less schooling...
...indications of the old, District-wide apathy toward visiting dignitaries had the planners resorting to psychological stratagems. Schoolchildren were told that if they got a note from home okaying their attendance at the reception, they would get a small Mexican flag. The reasoning was that, since no parent would let his child venture into the welcoming crowd alone, and no child would give up the flag without a prolonged and deafening squawk, the whole family would have to turn...
...grey and grimy harbor district, which looks like any Clydeside port, the dingy shops of ship's chandlers, fish & oyster packers and sailmakers line the narrow streets; old-country signs such as "Gourock Rope and Canvas, Ltd." dot ancient, weatherbeaten buildings. Marking the inner harbor entrance at the foot of Victoria Pier, a yellow-bricked sailors' memorial towers above the waterfront. Half a block away is the old Neptune Tavern (known from Singapore to the Cape of Good Hope for its "strong ale and pea soup"); nearby are other noted grog shops such as Joe Beef...