Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were found to have police records for such offenses as sodomy, escape from a mental institution, burglary, operation of a disorderly house, and suspected assault with intent to commit murder. In Manhattan, Negro officials of HARYOU-ACT,* which has received $2,400,000 from OEO, were subpoenaed by the district attorney, whose suspicion was aroused when a youngster complained that he had not been paid in five weeks. A suspended aide then accused the officials of misusing city and federal funds, paying excessive executive salaries and falsifying their accounts...
...Philadelphia, where 4,700 youths employed in nine Youth Corps projects work in the city's parks, housing projects and schools, Mrs. June Moore, district director of the corps, is convinced that the program has brought peace -if not brotherly love-to Philadelphia. "These are strenuous jobs," she says. "These young people are tired when they go home, too tired to be standing on corners all night...
...cities to recoup their taxable property losses is to put up buildings right over the highways, as New York City has done on the westbound approach to the George Washington Bridge. Last week, following that lead, the District of Columbia granted air rights to the Department of Labor to build a $47.6 million office building that will straddle the planned Washington Inner Loop Freeway near the foot of Capitol Hill...
Fingering a 105-year-old rosary that "once belonged to my grandmother," the defendant wept while his lawyer summed up before U.S. District Judge Peirson Hall in Los Angeles. "Oh, thank you, your honor!" cried old Movie Mobster George Raft, 70, as the judge fined him a mere $2,500 on one count of filing a false income tax return but dismissed five other charges amounting to $50,000 in back taxes-and a possible $25,000 in fines and 15 years in prison. "I told you not to thank the judge," said Judge Hall. So George proceeded to thank...
...suggestion has just been declared to be law in a notable ruling of U.S. District Judge James F. Gordon in a $2,000,000 libel suit against two Louisville newspapers and a radio station. The plaintiff: former Army Major General Edwin F. Walker. The defendants, charged Walker, defamed him by publishing and broadcasting wire-service reports suggesting that he incited student race rioters at the University of Mississippi...