Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ferreting into campaign funds in Pennsylvania Senator James A. Reed and his committee discovered that the W. C. T. U. had raised $250,000 for a "Governor's Enforcement Fund" after the Legislature had refused to vote money for Governor Gifford Pinchot to enforce Prohibition. The W. C. T. U. had an office in the State Capitol and paid for prosecutions brought in the name of Pennsylvania. National Anti-Saloon funds for assisting Prohibition enforcement from 1921 to 1925 were about $500,000 per annum-exclusive of millions raised by state Leagues. (TIME, July...
Devices: To persuade both political parties to stand for a national Prohibition referendum. To send two letters, costing 5c each, to the 27,000,000 citizens who will register to vote next year. To defray the $3,000,000 which this letter campaign and other publicity would cost, by inviting citizens and corporations to contribute in proportion to what they would save per annum if a liquor tax should replace the income tax. Failing a national referendum, to obtain more state referenda...
...second largest Negro city in the world (population 206,000) stretches its easygoing length and breadth over several square miles of southern Chicago. Some 41,000 of the inhabitants go to the polls, where it can be taken for granted they will vote for Abraham Lincoln's party (Republican...
...largest Negro city in the world is concentrated on the eastern upper tip of Manhattan Island. But Harlem is by no means exclusively a Lincoln-loving land. That is, its inhabitants have learned, like their Jewish neighbors in the nearby Bronx, to vote wlth the Irish democrats of Tammany Hall; to admire Democratic Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...lists of men eligible to vote were posted yesterday in Sever, Harvard, University, and Pierce Halls, and also at the Union...