Word: caste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After returns were in, a Democratic county chairman telegraphed Governor Young of California: "I move you, Sir, that Secretary of State Jordan be instructed to cast a unanimous ballot of the votes of California for Herbert Hoover for President of the United States...
...electoral votes of the eight-State fragment that he lacked of a State-unanimous election. As easily, the New York World, and Professor Frank G. Dickenson of the University of Illinois, showed that Governor Smith lacked only some 354,000 votes, properly placed-about 1% of the total votes cast-to be elected President with 268 electoral votes...
Most, if not all, of these persons have been hounded by Bratiano secret agents for years. They have seen ballots cast for their candidates torn up and burned by the Bratiano police. Today their turn has come at long last. Down Bratianos: up Peasants...
Rode before even the Tenno His Imperial Highness Prince Kanin, Honorary Executive of the Enthronement.* Came third the Empress, wearing an Occidental court gown of blue velvet, with large blue picture hat-her eyes cast modestly and fixedly down. The Tenno's brother, H.I.H. Chichibu, the heir presumptive, rode in a fourth carriage beside Princess Setsu, his bride. (TIME, Oct. 8). Brought up the Imperial rear, the Princes of the Blood, the Cabinet, the Diplomatic Corps, great Admiral Togo, and hundreds of correspondents.* As the Imperial train of eleven chuffed out of Tokyo 101 guns boomed...
...concerns the theosophical doctrine of reincarnation, to which Millionaire-Angel Davis sincerely, munificently subscribes. It meandered between four theatres, was rewritten many times,† had a period of "revision" during which the public was admitted free. Frequently Millionaire-Angel Davis gave bonuses of $20-gold pieces, paid well the cast, the author, J. Frank Davis (no blood relation of Edgar B. Davis), onetime newscribe, gave bonuses to the underworked ushers...