Word: andorran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tiny State's Council chamber last week and broke a 1,000-year old precedent. Since Charlemagne Andorra has been an autonomous State, but a State in which only the heads of land-owning families could vote. No man could vote whose father was still living, and Andorran shepherds and smugglers (leading industries) are almost indestructible. Faced by the menacing crowd of vote-seekers last week, the Andorran Councillors-who govern with "advice" from the Spanish Bishop of Urgel and the Government of France-suddenly discovered that there was no written law denying sons a vote. Universal male suffrage...
Physically potent, the Andorran Government (composed exclusively of hardy mountaineers) led young men of Andorra's best and hardiest families against the soft Spanish strikers, easily broke the strike, kicked its leaders across Andorra's frontier into Spain...