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...United States." Returning to his text, the President continued, "In this historic assembly hall, it is clear there is not a great distance between us. Outside this room, while there will still be clear differences, there is every reason why we should do all that is possible to shorten that distance." These remarks prompted the only spontaneous applause from delegates. Gromyko, though, sat with the stolid lack of expression that has earned him the nickname Grim Grom...
Hoping to shorten the process, California Senator Aaron Sargent had introduced in 1878 an amendment to the Constitution: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged ...on account of sex." After nine years of stalling, the Senate voted the measure down. Early in 1918, apparently because so many women had done so much war work, the amendment finally was passed by the House. In the galleries, a tearful crowd of suffragists started singing "Praise God from whom all blessings flow." The next year, the Senate added its grudging consent...
Those things may have been only surface phenomen, the scholars suggest. Evidence before them suggests that the electoral reform commission was created to help a front runner shorten the primary battle season. In the 1984 environment, academicians find it was one more powerful-element that preordained the nomination of Mondale...
...commission, which has authority over what structures may be put in Old Harvard Yard the quadrangle between Massachusetts and University Hails asked Harvard this week to remove or shorten the sign on the grounds that it is "incongruous" with the setting, Charles M. Sullivan, the commission's director, said Wednesday. "The sign is obtrusive as it stands," Sullivan added...
Rather than removing the sign or redecorating it. Harvard will shorten it to three to four feet, said George Oommen, who is in charge of the guardhouse and stop sign...