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Ever since the governorship of Elbridge Gerry in 1812, the shadow of that common political animal, the gerrymander, has hung over Massachusetts. Since the Federal Constitution leaves the designing of Congressional districts to the states, legislatures traditionally redistrict in the interests of the majority party. In Massachusetts, Republicans and Democrats have jockeyed for political advantage in redistricting since 1950, when the last Congressional reapportionment took place. Each party has attempted to gerrymander the other out of some of its Congressional seats, but neither has been able to pass a redistricting law, with the result that Massachusetts retains the same ungainly...
...clasping hands on his stomach and swaying. He it was who in 1918 persuaded the Rhodes Trust to let new Scholars be chosen by old ones, and got the job of managing it for himself. In 1929 he pounded on Parliament's door, got the bill through to redistrict-equivalent to breaking the Rhodes will. For the great copper family he organized the Guggenheim Fellowships, is still chairman. For Swarthmore he put across two $2,000,000 endowment drives, thereby tripling the endowment to $6,268,000. Frank Aydelotte did not try to enlarge the college enrollment...
Missouri, with its House seats cut from 16 to 13 by 1930 Reapportionment, failed to redistrict itself. Hence all its Representatives last week had to be nominated at large, the highest 13 on each party ticket qualifying for the November election. An enormous State-wide ballot resulted when 56 Democrats, 30 Republicans presented themselves for House nominations. In the confusion five sitting Democrats were jostled back to private life...
...compute the changes in State representation on the basis of the new census and certify the result to the Clerk of the House who will notify each Governor how many Congressmen his State may send to Washington after 1932. It would then be up to the Legislatures to redistrict their individual States to accord with any change in their representative strength in the House...