Word: districts
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Wynken, Blynken and Nod. Turning his phrasemaking talents to politics, Barton won election to an unexpired term in the House of Representatives in 1937 from Manhattan's "silk-stocking district," was easily re-elected the following year. A moderate Republican, he often joined Massachusetts' Joe Martin and New York's Hamilton Fish in heckling Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. Roosevelt retaliated massively during his 1940 bid for a third term. Borrowing the rhythm of the nursery-book poem, Wynken, Blynken and Nod, F.D.R. delighted audiences with his jocular condemnation of "Martin, Barton and Fish...
...share of local projects. Some areas of the City will be canvassed by three different peace groups. One of these, the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee (CNC), headed by Michael Walzer, associate professor of Government, is circulating a petition urging Congressman Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill Jr. "to return to your district to hold open hearings on the war." The CNC now has door-to-door canvassers working in about one-third of Cambridge's precincts, and in all eleven wards. Walzer estimates that about 1500 signatures have been collected...
According to a district supervisor of the MBTA who was standing vigil at the Square during rush-hour yesterday, the buses are having no trouble with the new system. But the passengers are somewhat less pleased. "For 15 or 20 years the Belmont bus has left from that spot right there," one irritated passenger said, "and now I haven't any idea how to find...
Elephant Bells. San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district-a throbbing three-eighths of a far-from-square-mile -is the vibrant epicenter of the hippie movement. Fog sweeps past the gingerbread
...luck. In a sprightly opinion, U.S. District Judge Marvin Frankel sympathized with Lamont but dismissed his suit. The state's revenue-raising technique "may not be the most inspired kind of government function," said Frankel, but "the information sold is not vital or intimate. It is, moreover, in the category of 'public records,' available to anyone upon demand." The court really ought not to intrude in this area, he went on, since "there is no invidious discrimination, no problem of a wrong unreachable at the polls, no suggestion of an affliction confined to a relatively helpless minority...