Word: districts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, two years and four months after the conviction, after one unsuccessful appeal to the Circuit Court and two to the Supreme Court, Andy May was still at liberty. With his codefendants, the Garssons, he had cooked up one more dodge; they asked Washington's District Court to reduce their sentences and let them go free on probation...
...cramped into fetid, single rooms, the sick and infirm bedded beside the children. Nerves wear thin, minds grow bitter in the stifling intimacy of want. Among the demoralized, cheap vice grows weedlike and ugly. In bomb-battered Essen, one of the first businesses to recover was the red-light district: harlots' row was rebuilt while the rest of the city lay in rubble...
William H. Hastie LL.B. '33, a 45 year old Law School graduate from Knoxville, Tennessee, was sworn in Thursday as the first Negro judge of a United States District Court of Appeals...
Hastie received an interim appointment to the bench of the Third District Court of Philadelphia. Although the appointment by President Truman is subject to confirmation at the next session of the Senate, Hastie sat with the full bench yesterday on his first case...
Hastie is a former District Judge of the Virgin Islands and has been governor of the Islands for the past three and a half years...