Word: frauenverein
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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...life was meeting its supreme test: the first nationwide referendum on whether women should vote. Typically, the campaigning -both pro and con-was conducted with sobriety, even with somnolence. No suffragettes surged in milling thousands through the streets; there were no feminist rallies, no raised voices. Even the potent Frauenverein, the women's organization responsible for the lack of alcohol and night life in Zurich, only went as far as to say that it was "not against" women's voting. The liberal newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung gingerly suggested that chaos might not inevitably follow female suffrage...
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