Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Issued a statement to the press in which he listed the candidates he would like to see win in each Congressional District...
...routine," said the now inactive union boss (U.M.W. District 50): "I live in a sparsely settled section." At Miami Beach, gunmen who robbed the Beachcomber nightclub got the jewels stored there by Veteran Torchsinger Sophie ("Last of the Red Hot Mammas") Tucker. Her estimate: $75,000. Ex-Scandals Producer George White, six months in a California work camp after an auto accident in which he killed two people, lost his plea for parole (he said he had pyorrhea and a bum knee), went back to tending sheep. When fire broke out in the radio of her husband's private...
...Feast of Peace. On the walls of the working-class district beneath the Parthenon, scrawled slogans gave a chronology of Greece's sorrow...
...weeks' strike truce in the Maritime coal industry had brought miners and owners no closer. So last week 13,500 members of the United Mine Workers, District 26, walked out of the mines for a second time, and shut down 30% of Canada's coal industry...
Self-taught and self-sufficient, he had always been somber and harsh. He had lived in Mexico City's red light district, painted its prostitutes and beggars in dark lurid colors. He found little to be joyful about in his own life or in the life about...