Word: count
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First up rose Representative Homer Hoch, Kansas Republican, to propose an amendment by which all aliens would be omitted from the population count on which representation is based. Such a counting of voters rather than of heads has long been a favorite project of Drys and the Ku Klux Klan, for it would reduce the representation of large Eastern cities with their many Wet and Liberal aliens. Exclusion of aliens would, for instance, cut six members from New York's representation. A coalition of Southern Democrats and Western Republicans from states adversely affected by reapportionment secured the adoption...
...Count Maxence de Polignac, member of one of France's oldest noble families, was, last week, taking a bath in his apartment in Manhattan's Hotel Savoy-Plaza. In his rooms were several bottles of champagne, some cognac. The Count intended giving a dinner. But before he had finished his bath Federal agents entered his apartment, seized the liquor, discovered and seized also a pistol, arrested the bather...
...next morning Manhattan's papers exulted: "Count de Polignac and 32 Seized Here as Liquor Ring." First developments: the Count was released on $25,000 bail. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman said: ''We have been trying to get him for a long time. He has been suspected of participating in a bootleg ring that has brought large quantities of liquor into the country." The Count de Polignac is in charge of foreign agents for the French champagne firm Pommery & Greno of which the Marquis Melchior de Polignac, the Count's first cousin, is president...
Announcements were then made that Count Cesare Maria de Vecchi di Val Cismon, "old guard" Fascist, was appointed Italy's Ambassador to Vatican City...
...Sonny. 9. * On the Paris, he had the cabin next to Count de Polignac...