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...Precinct 6-4 Dunster House, Leverett House F and G entries and Mather House --Putnam Apartments Lobby, 2 Mt. Auburn...
...Roosevelt's New Deal brought new political opportunities for women, partly because innovation suited the spirit of the 1930s, partly because Eleanor Roosevelt was a highly active First Lady, partly because Mary Dewson of the Democrats' women's division organized upwards of 60,000 female precinct workers to get out the female vote. Roosevelt appointed the first woman to the Cabinet (Labor Secretary Frances Perkins), the first female federal appeals court judge, the first female minister to a foreign country. Still, even in 1940,16 states still said a wife could not sign a contract, and eleven...
...Officials programmed the computer with painstaking care, matching the national ID number of every potential Salvadoran voter with 6,598 polling tables at locations around the country. The procedure was considered tamperproof: at each table, citizens were supposed to hand over their ID cards, to prevent double-voting. A precinct secretary would then look up the ID number on the computerized voting list, mark it, and hand out a ballot emblazoned with the party emblems of the competing candidates. After the voter marked his ballot and placed it in a transparent Lucite box (to forestall accusations of ballot-box stuffing...
...suspect. His father, Gordon, was the soft-spoken managing editor of the local afternoon paper; his family, respected residents of the city's South Hill district. Extroverted, with a live-in girlfriend, flashy cars and mercantile schemes of fabulous marketing strategies, Coe fit no precinct's violent-crime profile. But his private life might have come from a chapter of Krafft-Ebing...
...Precinct 8-5 29 Garden St., 12 Walker St., 38 Walker St. and 60 Walker St. --Harvard Epworth Church, 1555 Mass...