Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shoko (Merchants and Manufacturers Party) proposed a businessmen's bloc in politics, with the following platform planks...
Protests of Negro organizations from many parts of the country, descending about the ears of a Senator, caused him to change his mind. Senator Capper of Kansas is leader of the farm bloc and of the "marriage bloc"-if such a thing there is. In the last Congress he brought forward a Constitutional Amendment and a supplementary bill to make marriage and divorce laws uniform throughout the country. One of the provisions of the bill prohibited " marriage between members of the white and black races or of the white and yellow races." Letters of protest-from Negroes have since poured...
...other Senator is Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin (Republican-by courtesy). He has no such excuse as Senator Wheeler, because the Republican candidate is considered in the running. But neither did Mr. La-Follette offer any excuses. He would rather elect a new Senator for the "progressive" bloc than another Senator for the Republican Party...
...Vincennes he said: " I am a farmer but I do not belong to the farm bloc...
Next morning the party arrived at Hutchinson, Kans., and drove out six miles to the farm of Chester O'Neal. There, with Senator Arthur Capper (leader of the farm bloc), William Allen White and Governor Davis standing by, the President in white flannel trousers, white doeskin shoes, blue coat and straw hat, shocked sheaves of wheat after the approved methods of Kansas and Ohio...