Word: districts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pleading his own case in East Cambridge District Court yesterday, Bernard B. Polak 2L argued that parking meters as used in Cambridge are illegal. Nevertheless, he was convicted of his second parking violation, and fined one dollar...
Labor's candidate for the South Bradford district was George Craddock, a 52-year-old union leader and Methodist lay preacher whose slogan was: "Craddock for Security." South Bradford's working people are still poorly dressed and skimpily fed by American standards, but by & large they are better off than before the war. Craddock reminded them that in 1938 over 20,000 workers were unemployed in Bradford; now only 600 are out of work, most of these unemployable. His Conservative opponent, a wizened Bradford solicitor named John Windle, concentrated on the theme that Britain was in a mess...
...roof of the Fiorello LaGuardia Hospital, which is being built next door to the monastery. Named for New York City's late mayor, the new hospital is expected to be opened next spring with eventual accommodations for 500 beds. It will serve not only the entire district of Gargano, but also the many ailing pilgrims who come to visit Padre...
Congressman J. Parnell Thomas sat disconsolately in Washington's district court last week, a pudgy, petulant man whose high-riding days were over...
Parnell Thomas, who in his 203 had changed his name from Feeney to Thomas, and his religion from Catholic to Episcopal, had served his New Jersey district in Congress for twelve years, had even been re-elected last November with the charges hanging over him. He had indignantly denied them then. Due in federal court for sentencing this week, he was expected also to resign from Congress, to let a better American take his place...