Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next day, by an identical vote, his Ministry was approved by the Dail. The only change was the appointment of Fitzgerald Kenny as Minister of Justice in succession to the slain Kevin Christopher O'Higgins (TIME, July 18, 1925). Ernest Blythe is Vice President in addition to being Minister of Finance, the former post also having been held by Mr. O'Higgins at the time of his death...
Detroit went to its primary polls to nominate two men to run for mayor. No parties took part. No issues were raised. And the man Detroit chose by a margin of 30,000 votes as leading nominee had made no campaign, posted no posters, mailed no cards, spoken no speeches. When this leading nominee heard the returns he said: "The vote of the people is a tribute for which I am deeply grateful. ... I believe that the people of Detroit know there is not an intolerant bone in my body...
...Ticknor '31, of New York City, was chosen to lead this year's Freshman football eleven by a vote of his teammates yesterday afternoon. Ticknor, who plays fullback, has been one of the chief elements in the first year Crimson attack so far this fall. His 195 pounds of weight distributed over 6 feet 3 inches of height give him a powerful line-bucking drive which has been a valuable asset to the Freshmen in tearing open opposing lines this season. Against Andover two weeks ago he showed up particularly well, scoring one of his team touchdowns and proving...
...effect was almost electrical. The conference was, so to speak, stampeded and forthwith, almost as one man, the members rose to cry "aye" to the motion proposing that women of 21 should receive the vote. Irate Tories cursed...
Premier Baldwin later in the day made extension of the franchise the strongest point of his speech on government policy, promising to make Britain "truly democratic" before the next general elections. He then charged Viscount Rothermere, Tzar of British newspaperdom, with sole opposition to granting young women the vote and went on paradoxically to challenge that the "noble Lord" state before all the world whether he was now supporting the Conservatives or the Liberals...