Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anti-Nature. But the floor show of the week (which Citizen Washburn apparently missed) featured Senate debate on a bill authorizing the District of Columbia Commissioners to institute daylight-saving time in Washington...
Although most District citizens liked daylight saving during the war and want it back, most Senators come from areas prejudiced against "fast time." Nevertheless, Rhode Island's J. Howard McGrath thought the Senate ought to do "what is good and desirable for the people of the District of Columbia...
...President," said Overton, huskily, "it seems to me that we should pursue the course that the God of Nature has prescribed. ... But here come the members of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, and like Joshua of old, they want to bid the sun and the moon to stand still. ... If the bill passes ... I will be tempted to insert in the Washington newspapers an advertisement-'Lost, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, one golden hour, set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward offered-it is lost forever...
...mission, led by Dr. Austin M. Brues of the University of Chicago and Dr. Paul S. Henshaw of the Manhattan District, examined some of the victims and collected information from Japanese physicians on The Bomb's delayed after-effects.* Chief findings...
...Little. When he was six, Sidney had just picked up a clarinet and started playing. Nobody told him how, and he still can't read music well. He played his first date in New Orleans' red-light district when he was 10. He says "If I couldn't find the notes in the proper place, I made 'em myself. If you want a soft mellow tone, you have to take it easy and pet it a little. But you take an awful chance, you may not get anything." He still uses his own unorthodox fingering...