Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charitable Foundation, all of Boston, the San Jacinto Fund of Houston, the Foundation for Youth and Student Affairs of New York. In several cases, the forms that tax-exempt foundations are required to submit as public records with the Internal Revenue Service were strangely missing from the files of district offices...
...Federal Court of Appeals' ruling last week that Massachusetts' congressional districts are malapportioned is an unusually strict, but justified, application of the Supreme Court's "one man, one vote" edict. The population difference between the State's largest and smallest congressional districts is 102,626 people, an imbalance which many apportionment experts do not consider extreme. The Federal Court, however, noted that when the General Court re-apportioned the state in 1962 it rejected two other apportionment plans which would have kept the maximum difference of population beteen any two districts to 50,000 people. Last Wednesday's decision, with...
...Reserve Board on eight separate occasions between July 15 and Sept. 2 last year rejected requests from Federal Reserve Banks to lift the discount rate from its present 41% to 5% or 51%. Not since 1957 had the board failed to approve such a request from one of its district banks...
...They are now suing in a District of Columbia federal court, which is not bound by the Second Circuit decision but will have to consider it. None of the Michigan draft-board demonstrators (or apparently any others) have yet been drafted...
Died. Graham A. Barden, 70, Democratic Congressman from North Carolina's Third District (southeast part of the state) and predecessor of Adam Clayton Powell as chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, a dedicated obstructionist who during 13 terms in Congress never wavered in his support of states rights and segregation, took pride in blocking education and labor legislation ("I never knew the Republic to be endangered by a bill that was not passed," he once said), notably in 1956 when he killed a $1.6 billion school construction bill; of cancer; in New Bern...