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...first important suffrage extention was to eliminate property holding and taxpaying qualifications for manhood suffrage. Although the American Revolution was followed by a lowering of property qualifications it wasn't until the rise of Jacksonian democracy that such qualifications were largely swept away and with them much of the power of the early American aristocracy...
...members heard New Jersey's handsome bachelor Governor Robert B. Meyner, 46, trace the problem of juvenile delinquency down to some unattractive roots. "The modern ideal of feminine perfection," said Democrat Meyner, "seems to be a punk actress with platinum hair and an overstuffed bosom. The ideal of manhood is a character who toots a horn and smokes marijuana." The governor's battle cry: "What we need are fewer Aly Khans and [Porfirio] Rubirosas and more Daniel Boones and Horatio Algers...
When Harvard was an infant, its religious critics called it "intolerant"; in its youth they termed it "liberal." When it achieved manhood its nickname became "Unitarian." But middle life and recent history have made "pagan," and "Episcopal and Jewish run" more appropriate...
...United States today, we Communists propose to aid the renaissance in the life of the Negro people. We aim to unite the Negro people in a struggle for civil rights, manhood status, for the fullest cultural advancement...
Whipped to Manhood. But the Zuni chiefs knew nothing of all this. What had brought them together and what they passed around among themselves was a picture clipped from the Denver Post showing groups of two of their most potent gods, the Mudheads and the Shalakos, among the white men. After due deliberation, the chiefs sent a delegation to the Indian Commissioner in Gallup, N. Mex., 33 miles north of the pueblo, to protest against the sacrilege and to inform him that henceforth the great Zuñi pueblo would be closed to all non-Zuñi visitors...