Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is indeed nothing novel in the actual finger-printing process for V-12 men who smudge on the dotted line for monthly base pay minus deductions, but in the line of more advanced studies experts in the numerous precinct stations stand ready to demonstrate this and similar scientific police methods...
...days later MARCH OF TIME, which had obtained Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia's verbal permission to film the gates of one of New York City's Jewish cemeteries for the same film, got a telephone call from the police captain of the cemetery precinct. He said no pictures could be taken. M.O.T. took the pictures anyway, and police took the names of the camera crew...
These estimates are less than just. Wheelhorse Spangler is, in fact, an earnest political mechanic who plugs away at his job. He is an accidental victim of the deep G.O.P. dilemma. Chairman Spangler is a shrewd, behind-the-scenes vote-gatherer on the relatively low political plane of precinct, county and state. By default, he has been forced to scramble on stage, an unrehearsed understudy, in a role that might try the statesmanship of a Jefferson...
...When he was still a boy, Earl settled on law as his career. He hung around the county courthouse after school, listening with interest to the routine trials of routine lawbreakers. Through his father, Zwingle Spangler, who carried weight in Iowa Republican circles, Earl got his first chance at precinct vote-counting. The job roused in him an insatiable appetite for politics...
Error Four. At the polls last week, precinct leaders of both parties took a realistic view of a plain political fact: for voters unused to splitting tickets, an attempt to vote against Aurelio might spoil the whole ballot. It was easier, and safer, to forget all about Aurelio and urge the straight ticket...