Manhattan District

noun

1. (during World War II) the code name for a unit of US army engineers established in 1942 to construct secret sites for the development of the atomic bomb Also calledManhattan Project

Example Sentences

Black community leaders picketed the office of then-Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau.

From The Daily Beast

Bratton is narrowly right, but contrast his reaction with that of Richard H. Kuh, the Manhattan District Attorney in 1974.

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Strauss-Kahn may have seen the last of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.

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