Word: districts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undismayed, last week at the failure (because of a visual defect) of his Candidate Charles E. Weir to pass the physical examination for the U. S. Naval Academy, Congressman De Priest said he would continue to appoint Negroes to fill his district's vacancies in the service schools...
Walter Hughes Newton,* representing the Fifth (Minneapolis) Congressional District of Minnesota, resigned to become a Hoover secretary, to handle particularly post office patronage. A Republican primary was ordered. Mr. Coleman. good Newton friend that he was, resigned as Minneapolis postmaster to run in that primary. He had ample reason to believe he was the Administration's choice for nomination and election. Against him ran two other Republicans: Lieut. Gov. W. I. Nolan and onetime Yale footballer Walter William Heffelfinger (TIME June...
While airplanes strafed the Moroccan tribesmen with bombs and machine guns, the Foreign Legion's district commander, dashing General Freydenberg, went forward with the relief column himself...
...toward the pool and its activities. In 1924, anti-trust proceedings were instituted against the Patent Club and 48 associated companies. In 1927 a Master in Chancery reported that the pool was necessary (and therefore legal) because overlapping patents compelled some pooling arrangement.* This report the U. S. District Court ignored and last week declared against the Patent Club. Three U. S. Federal judges in the Chicago district decided (2 t01) that the cracking patents were not overlapping, that the pool and its methods of operation represented an abuse of patent monopoly privileges, that the pool would have to dissolve...
...Manhattan financier and philanthropist, of Cooper Union fame, and a group of Baltimore businessmen organized Canton Co., purchased Canton-a strip of land along the Baltimore water front for $105,000. It was thought at that time that the then-young Baltimore & Ohio R. R. would want the Canton district for a Baltimore freight terminal. No purchase was made, however, and for many years Canton remained comparatively undeveloped, its chief industries being cockfighting and politics. Shortly before the Civil War, Canton did become prominent as a coal port, and the Canton Iron Works was built. Here were cast the armor...