Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sturdy, moral, beef-consuming Britons know who Miss Sylvia Pankhurst is-know her as a famed "militant suffragette" who smashed windows, was often arrested, and repeatedly hunger-struck until British women won the vote...
Senate-leaders Curtis (Republican) and Robinson (Democrat) had put their heads together and determined that, after all, Flood Relief was not a thing to bicker and trifle over. They had agreed to ram Senator Jones' bill, all points of which had been settled in committee, through to a vote at the first opportunity. The opportunity came when Wisconsin's Blaine long and earnestly opposed Senator Norbeck's migratory bird bill, providing Federal bird sanctuaries to be paid for by Federal hunting licenses at $1 each. So long, so earnestly did Senator Elaine and one or two others...
When the appointments came up for voting, there was a fight over only one name, that of Orestes H. Caldwell, the New York commissioner. Mr. Caldwell had been criticized for accepting a compensation fee of $7,000 per annum from his former employers, the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., for whom he edited Radio Retailing, to eke out his $10,000 salary on the commission. Also, Southerners and Westerners charged that he had discriminated in favor of the Radio Corp. of America, which operates stations flung from Worcester, Mass. to Los Angeles. The fight over Mr. Caldwell's reappointment...
...vote of the Faculty of the Department of Physics, students concentrating in that field will, starting this fall, work under the Tutorial System, with its attendant general examinations, it was announced yesterday. The change will go into effect in September...
...Congress, in this case took place at Boiling Field, far away from Capitol Hill. The lobbyist was Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his sole argument was an airplane. He took several score of Congressmen up for a fly. It seemed unlikely that any of them would ever thereafter vote against any air law that may be endorsed by Lobbyist Lindbergh...