Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hate to vote away good American money for bad American diplomatic service ... I honor the White House here in Washington but I should like to see the Paris Whitehouse booted...
...debate was a paradox. Republicans, for once, argued for states' rights while democrats exalted the Federal power. South Carolina's flowery Blease was the only Democrat who became loudly alarmed over a precedent which might some day return to plague Southern gentlemen charged with smothering the Negro vote...
...McBride represents the Wheeler tradition of alert, energetic lobbying, vote-swaying, political-threatening. Mr. Cherrington represents a faction of the League which conceives that Wheelerism has been misunderstood in the U. S.; that the League's moneyed lobbying has made the League almost unpopular; that the League's wisest course now is to spend its millions after the fashion of manufacturers of tomato soup and cigarets, on national advertising and an "educational" campaign...
...anniversary meeting?the 80th anniversary of U. S. women's first effort to get the vote;* the 40th anniversary of the National Council of Women...
...received by Nicholas Longworth on the Speaker's rostrum, unique honor for a private citizen. Said Mr. Longworth: "America's most attractive citizen." To his feet jumped Representative Snell, New York, moved to confer the Congressional Medal of Honor on the flyer. Hammering his gavel, not waiting for a vote, Mr. Longworth shouted: "The bill is passed!" Laughter; shouts of approval...