Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argue that the Federal Government should not regulate voting for state offices. But the same voting qualifications that apply to state voting also apply to national elections. Although extended suffrage would regulate qualifications in both state and national voting, the necessity for uniform standards in Presidential elections should over-ride state objections. In matters such as sanitation, states have differing needs and consequently differing legislation. But in the choice of a President, where the needs of the whole nation are the same, uniform qualifications should apply...
Moscow may crow about its subway system, and Parisiennes make love in the "Metro," but nobody likes the MTA. Armed with a home-town Newspaper, the pedestrian has merely to descend into the Harvard Square station to reason why: the price of a ride has risen to twenty cents...
...helped plot the fabulous Long March, in which 30,000 Communists trekked 6,000 miles in 368 days to the northwest to escape Chiang's armies. One writer described him in those days: "His chin veiled by a black beard, Chou would ride a bristle-maned Mongolian pony out through the stone arches of Yenan. His only badge of rank as he cantered through the yellow hills were the caps of two fountain pens peeping out of the breast pocket of his shirt...
...states-Nepal. Bhutan and Sikkim; it printed borderland maps that showed Indian districts as part of Red China. Nehru's reaction to all this (and to Red China's open call for "Asian unity" under Red China's leadership): an Indian army buildup a few hours ride back from the frontier and an urgent appeal for "consultations" with Peking...
...Sorrow. The day of their return to Baltimore, they learned that son Roosey, along with 15 other youths, had been arrested on a charge of taking two girls, ages 13 and 11, on an all night joy ride and keeping them in a furnished flat for a week. He was acquitted of the rape charge, but out of the investigation of this case grew a perjury indictment against 21-year-old Roosey. But Tommy confidently announced his candidacy for governor ten months before the primary...