Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME, elliptic, meant that there is as yet no basis in law for the application of the Tinkham Amendment, which aimed to exclude from the Reapportionment count inhabitants of states whose franchise has been denied or abridged (i. e., Negroes in Southern states). No Southern state yet stands legally convicted of such denial or abridgement...
...results. . . . The case of cordials . . . was very much appreciated, especially by the feminine side of the fam ily. ... As you know I come from a Prohibition state and I am supposed to be a prohibitionist but I am about as loyal to the Prohibition element as some of these Southern Democrats are to the Democratic party. . . . While I find it is not policy to be too outspoken as to my sentiments, I don't mind telling you and the world that I believe a license for light wines and beers would be a great improvement over the present Prohibition...
Many an oldtime Southern Republican wondered how the Slemp trick would work. Virginia Republicans normally muster 75,000 or more votes. The runaway Democrats of 1928 numbered only some 40,000 votes. In the new alliance the majority accepted the minority's major candidate...
...Southern Air Transport
...Standard-Southern Air Fast Express. Plane between Los Angeles and El Paso, train (Texas & Pacific) between El Paso and Sweetwater, Texas; plane between Sweetwater and St. Louis; train (New York Central, Pennsylvania or Baltimore & Ohio) from St. Louis to Atlantic Coast ports. Time, 58 hours; fare, $215. This service made its first run the same day as the Santa Fe-Universal-N. Y. C. Last week it began regular trips...