Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill also provided comforting U. S. mail contracts for U. S. shipmen. President Coolidge's main reasons for approving the ship bill were two: It was designed to put more merchantmen operating from the U. S., under the U. S. flag; it required only five out of the seven votes of the U. S. Shipping Board to dispose of the 300-odd Government-owned ships remaining from the Wartime U. S. Emergency Fleet. Some Congressmen had tried to require the Board's unanimous vote, or six-out-of-seven. President Coolidge is anxious to oust the U. S. from...
...There are at least ten states in which the colored vote is the deciding factor- Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, New York." So say politicians oft and anon at this period of the presidential cycle. The man who said it last week was Perry W. Howard, Republican National Committeeman from Mississippi. Mr. Howard who is a Negro (light colored) also said: "The group I represent has unfortunate ly for years, and to a large extent, followed the political fortunes of Governor Smith in New York and it is essential that this support be brought-back...
...Voted,. . . . to obtain sketches from Mr. Charles A. Coolidge for plans for replacing the wooden stands," ran in part the vote upon the Stadium question which the Corporation passed last Monday. This excerpt from the resolution brings forcibly to mind a realization of the architectural monopoly long in existance at Harvard...
...Vote of Corporation...
...verbatim report of the vote of the Corporation passed in its meeting Monday, follows: "Voted, the Corporation being informed that the suggestion of the Overseers for movable steel stands is impracticable, that the President and Mr. Bingham, the Director of Athletic be authorized to obtain sketches from Mr. Charles A. Coolidge for plans for replacing the wooden stands at the end of the end of the Stadium by reinforced concrete seats...