Word: districts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West Harlem, where hulking Ben Davis, one of the convicted Communist leaders, was defending his seat on the city council. It was the only elective office in the U.S. held by a Communist, and the party poured its resources into the fight. Comrades sent sound trucks crisscrossing the district, harangued street-corner meetings nightly, and Candidate Davis shouted himself out of voice...
...Francisco, husky, able John Francis Shelley, 44, seasoned state political leader and president of the California State Federation of Labor (A.F.L.), handily captured the ever-Republican Fifth District. But Shelley was the first to admit that the labor-heavy Fifth was just replacing one good union man with an other. His predecessor, the late Richard J. Welch, onetime president of the A.F.L. molders' union, had frequently deserted the Republicans to vote labor. When Welch was alive, Boss Ed Flynn tried to get Shelley to run against him; Shelley not only refused but said that if Flynn put up some...
Call Out the A.S.P.D.! The Military District of Washington announced a daring experiment in unification: it was getting ready to put the Army's MPs and the Navy's Shore Patrol out of business. Some time around the first of the year, the MPs and SP would be merged (with the Air Force's patrolmen) into a new and common enemy: the Armed Services Police Department...
Pope. And in heavily Roman Catholic Las Vegas, N.M., District Judge Luis Armijo put himself on record as having no intention of being bound by the ruling of the Pontiff. "I may be a Catholic," he announced, "but I'm a citizen of the United States first...
...government corporation had plenty of excuses. First there were heavy rains, then a severe drought. The bush in the Kongwa district had "proved unduly obstinate"; it took eight hours to clear one acre instead of the estimated two. Kongwa soil hardens until it becomes "like a tennis court." Tractors had been mishandled by native labor. Even African animals turned saboteurs. Wild pigs made a goober feast of one experimental farm, and telephone lines were constantly broken by mild but shortsighted giraffes who got entangled in the wires...