Word: district
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...King Macy who got hurt. When the final count was in, Macy had been beaten, by 126 votes, by Democrat-Liberal Ernest Greenwood, a retired schoolteacher. Macy, running for his third term in the House, angrily demanded a recount. It was the first time in 36 years that the district had failed to elect a Republican Congressman. Dewey himself carried the district by 59,000 votes...
...would show up at one exchange and when telephone workers refused to cross picket lines, supervisory workers and executives would have to be pressed into service to man the switchboards. Then the strikers would withdraw abruptly to picket another exchange. Harassed officials were kept busy shuttling reinforcements from one district to another...
Captain of Detectives Patrick F. Ready said that pressure brought by Frank Brickman, the dead student's father, caused the current inquiry. The District Attorney's office, called into the case by Law School officials, assigned State Police Sergeant Sylvester Meade to prepare a report for that office...
Ready stated that he is "satisfied the death was not caused by foul play," but he wants to satisfy Frank Brickman of this. He will hold an inquest in a few weeks in District Court to bring all the witnesses before Brickman...
Livingston Hall, Law School vice dean, who Brickman asked to investigate "certain items" in the death, said yesterday he has turned in all the information he has uncovered during the past week to Middlesex District Attorney George A. Thompson. Thompson transmitted this to the Cambridge police and Sergeant Meade...