Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unfair newspapers headlined "Vote Slacker" when Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, suffragette and political matron, announced that she had never voted and never would until U. S. women should "place in the field" a Presidential candidate. Mrs. Belmont did not say whether or not the candidate would have to be a woman...
...brought the Panama-Pacific International Exposition to town, in L915. He was the man whom they had elected in 1912 to keep San Francisco from being exploited as "the Paris of America." The San Franciscans re-elected Mayor Rolph for a fifth four-year term by a 30,000-vote margin...
...substitution of one privileged class for another; for, today, in Communist Russia the workers are the aristocracy, and the former aristocracy and the bourgeoisie rank even lower than did the workers under the Tsars-they do not count at all. Only workers & peasants over the age of 18 can vote...
Signor Mussolini rapped the table for silence and, rising, unfolded to the assembled Fascists a plan for abolishing universal suffrage. In brief this is what he commanded: 1) Only members of the 13 Fascist corporations, which include all Fascist producers and workers, shall be eligible to vote, because they are active contributors to the advancement of the nation...
...month calendar he advocates. Practically every one approved the calender. The United States Chamber of Commerce national counselors in conference at West Baden, Ind., a month ago approved it; the transportation committee of the League of Nations has approved it. Quite possibly the legislatures of important countries will vote its adoption. Its chief obstacles, apparently, are the customs of various religions...