Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three socially unregistered candidates opposed, but without reckoning the fact that people do a lot of things at Palm Beach that they would not do at home. The excitement of this new game called Politics so lured idle sunbathers, tennis players and drink-sippers that, entitled to vote or not, they turned campaigners...
...Vote for Warburton" read the dodgers which a member of the opposition found himself handing out after converse with a dazzling debutante. Matrons asked their servants to vote Warburton. Anita ("Prefer Blondes") Loos chased her busband (Onetime-Actor John Emerson) to the polls to do likewise. Arthur Hammerstein was fetched from the links by his wife, who used to be Dorothy Dalton. Producer Florenz Ziegfeld glorified the scene at the Town Hall. Many a tradesman advertised his shop by voting as Wealth suggested. Result: Warburton, 482; other candidates...
...provision that might jeopardize our communications, east, west, north, south, in any attack from the air." ¶ The ambitious project of founding a "Pan-American League of Nations" by endowing the Pan-American Union- with political powers was sacked in subcommittee and finally in committee by an adverse vote in the ratio of two to one. ¶ The Conference solemnly and gallantly assembled to hear speeches in behalf of Pan-American womanhood...
Premier and Finance Minister Raymond Poincare won a smashing vote of confidence, 370 to 131, last week, on his whole financial policy. Thus he reaped well after sowing a gigantic eight-hour speech (TIME, Feb. 13), in which he explained and defended the means whereby he had rescued the franc from decline and virtually stabilized it within only 18 months...
...mailman, now title actor in Porgy. Otto Hermann Kahn was there, Max Reinhardt, Sculptor Jo Davidson, able Actress Thimig from the Reinhardt troupe and Mayor James John Walker. Between the acts Mayor Walker ambled nimbly to the stage and praised the piece prodigiously. Which may get him the Negro vote, but will not disguise the fact that Meek Mose, in acting and writing, was irreparably inept. It tells of an aged darky and the slap, slap, slap of life as he turned the other cheek. The inevitable chant of spirituals saved the night from utter rout...