Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Serrano yearned to be a kingmaker. He saw a good prospect in the bright intelligence, personal charm and gleaming smile of Miguel Aléman. He got to work, and in two years Aléman zoomed from private citizen to Justice of the Superior Court of the Federal District to Senator from Vera Cruz to Governor of the state. (His predecessor had been killed in a cafe murder...
...Executioners Wait. Though Joseph K. is "arrested," he is permitted to go on working in the bank where he is a minor official. Sometimes he is summoned to the "Court." It is held in a filthy room in a tenement in a slum district. The spectators are all petty police agents of the Court. The attorneys, judges and law students misbehave in public with the wives of the Court attendants. The law "books, when Joseph K. finally peeps into them, are filled with obscene pictures. He never can find out the nature of the charge against him. He never...
...vitamin C. In 1795, Earl Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty, ordered lemons or limes included in the daily diet on British ships. Soon British sailors and then the whole British people became known as "limeys." "Limey" bears no etymological relation to "Blimey," or to Limehouse, a London dock district named for an old lime kiln, or oast...
Ranging elsewhere in the face of overwhelming odds, the local Tildens will find the Cambridge courts behind Dunster House and the Metropolitan District Commission courts further down the River opposite Braves Field, open to the public free of charge. Unfortunately the city has gotten tired of footing the bill for pilfered nets, and players must bring their...
...mature responsibility as a labor leader," had begun negotiating in January. He is a determined and militant young man, a high-school graduate, who worked as a drill-press operator, department-store clerk, went to night school and leaped into labor politics as a district union representative...