Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Upholding a decision by Federal district judge Frank Picard in the Mt. Clemens case, the Supreme Court held that employers are liable for pay for time employees must spend on their property, even though it is not spent at productive labor...
Last week a District of Columbia federal grand jury returned indictments charging May, his "warm friends" Murray and Henry Garsson, and the Garsson's Washington business agent Joseph F. Freeman, with conspiring to defraud the Government. May was accused of accepting $16,000 in checks and cash from the Garssons and arranging for the payment...
Next morning, while armored cars roamed Jerusalem streets, the terrorists struck again. While a courtroom crowd watched, another gang of two women and eight men forced Judge Ralph Windham, still in his wig and gown, from his Tel Aviv district court bench...
...they have moved in was highlighted by last week's nationwide election in Brazil. Some five million Brazilians voted for governors, local legislators, and a third senator for each of Brazil's 20 states and the Federal District. Cariocas voted (for the first time in a dozen years) for 50 Rio de Janeiro municipal councilmen. The chief parties were: the Social Democratic Party (of President Eurico Caspar Dutra); the Labor Party (bossed by ex-President Getulio Vargas); the Communist Party; and the National Democratic Union (which is against the Government, the Communists and Vargas). The most sensational aspect...
...except that it was the one who had tried to bribe him once before). Rocky feigned a backache to get the fight called off. A New York State Boxing Commission doctor "confirmed" the back injury. Then Rocky went to Florida, presumably for his health. Rocky told the story to District Attorney Frank S. Hogan...