Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...substitute bill proposed by California Democrat B. F. (for Bernie Frederic) Sisk, who, though normally an Administration trusty, thought he had a better formula. The Sisk bill simply postpones the issue by providing that the home-rule question be put to a vote of District residents within 100 days. If approved, an elected charter board would have 210 days in which to draft a plan for city government; this in turn would have to be approved in a citywide referendum. If passed, the charter would then go to Congress for its approval or rejection...
...legal background is not exactly fudge, though it notably lacks the hard center of juridical experience to be expected of a federal judge. That deficiency has never budged Francis Xavier Morrissey from his deep-seated ambition to win a life appointment to the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts...
...works and artifacts of the man it honors. To be erected on a two-block site across the street from the original Library of Congress, the Madison Library will culminate years of effort by Representative Howard Smith (D., Va.), chairman of the House Rules Committee, who represents the congressional district in which Madison lived. It will be the most appropriate possible tribute to the American who, as a 33-year-old Representative in 1783, was the first to work for the establishment of a Library of Congress...
Kennedy paterfamilias at that time was hopeful that Son John would enter politics on his return from the Navy. Morrissey volunteered to help - and soon became known as Joe's eyes and ears in Boston's tough 11th District, the fief of Honey Fitz, Jack's maternal grandfather. An eloquent speaker himself, Frank coached Jack Kennedy in political oratory, gave him a cram course in ward politics, and later competently managed his home office when Jack went to Washington...
...losers were nine ranking party officials, including Finance Minister Paul Bomani, who had invoked the wrath of the electorate by raising income taxes. One of the biggest winners: hard-working Health Minister Derek Bryceson, the only white in Nyerere's Cabinet, who carried his Dar es Salaam district by a resounding 30,000 votes...