Word: districts
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Findley -- representative from Abraham Lincoln's 20th District -- proposed an exchange of diplomatic, cultural, journalistic and tourist missions between "the two giant nations of Occident and Orient." But he asked for continued checks on Chinese "military or subversive threats and pressure...
Unable to erase the U.S. Constitution, Alabama racists would love to erase the Alabamian who tirelessly enforces it-U.S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson. Last month Johnson signed an order for complete desegregation of all Alabama public schools next fall, the first such statewide decree in history. Last week unknown persons counterattacked not Johnson but his 69-year-old mother. As Mrs. Johnson watched TV alone in her Montgomery house, a bomb blasted her garden, shattering windows, ripping off a door, scattering books and furniture everywhere...
Died. Delbert E. Metzger, 92, U.S. District Court Judge for Hawaii from 1939 to 1952, who caused an uproar in 1944 by ruling that martial law was no longer necessary in the islands and fining Lieut. General Robert C. Richardson Jr. $5,000 for refusing to comply, in 1951 caused another flap by acquitting 39 Hawaiians of contempt of Congress charges after they took refuge in the Fifth Amendment during a House investigation; in Honolulu...
Alperovitz told the students that the only way to translate their ideas into political action was to educate the voters in the district about the problem. Without constituents educated to their position, he reasoned, the Congressmen could never be expected to respond politically...
Lindsay's involvement in local Republican politics from district primaries to the gubernatorial election has been kept very hush-hush. In Queens, where Al Ungar played a big part in the Rockefeller campaign, he worked under a pseudonym. Ungar is an inveterate cigar smoker, so during the campaign, he was to be known as Mr. Ragic. The identity of Mr. Ragic became the great mystery of the Queens storefronts. Orders were issued over the phone - by Mr. Ragic. Ragic rented a car and driver to take him from one store-front to the next. The driver would park...