Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though numerous deputies took up this theme, expressing substantially unanimous concurrence, the debate ended amid impotent wrath with a vote approving the reparations clauses of the German budget as presented by Finance Minister Dr. Koehler, himself an especially vigorous advocate of Dawes Plan revision...
...universities, with students totaling 36,000, to which were submitted these nine questions, Dartmouth stood forth as the least orthodox. In the grand total for the quiz, 87% of all answers were found to be "Yes." Such colleges as Providence, Pacific Union, Converse, Bridgewater, Carthage, Millsaps, Woffard, Shorter, Wheaton voted higher than 97% orthodox. But, such universities as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Brown, Chicago, Illinois, California, Stanford were not questioned by the International Advertising Association. Of the women's colleges, Wellesley was least orthodox with a vote of 75% affirmative; but Smith, Vassar, Bryn Mawr and Barnard...
Reputedly the cabinet approved in camera last week for early submission to Parliament, a bill providing that in a three-cornered contest for a parliamentary seat wherein no candidate has an absolute majority the re-vote shall be only on the two leaders in the original polling...
Thus in the very frequent instance of a Conservative and a Laborite completely outdistancing a Liberal, the re-vote would be between the Conservative and the Laborite only. Since the followers of the dropped Liberal would then be more likely to swing to the Conservative than to the Laborite, it is to the advantage of the present Conservative Government to get the bill through...
...MISS PANKHURST FINDS NO THRILL" remarked the press. In London, Christabel Pankhurst, onetime militant suffragist, window-smasher, picket of Parliaments, had sighed meekly. Parliament was soon expected to pass legislation that would give the vote to all women of 21 or more in England. Suffragist Pankhurst said: "It would have been the Seventh Heaven of delight years ago if this had come to pass. But I have changed since then. Now ... I know we can make the same mistakes...