Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Miami, Fla., blackmen shook their heads, "reckoned they couldn't find no way to vote no-how." Miami's 40,000 Negroes never fret much about white men's elections, but somehow they had, counted on marking crosses on nice new ballots in the April elections. A committee of three leading citizens of the black belt, suave in manner, impeccable in dress, called on the city commission. The Hannibal of the trio made a dignified advance. He said...
...district is asking that the commission place a registration booth in our district so our voters may pay their poll tax and qualify to vote...
...originally declared that Harvard and Yale were tied for first place and Princton came last. In the debate at Princeton, where the Yale affirmative team met the Princeton negative team, two judges voted for Yale, and one judge and the audience cast their votes for Princeton. It was then thought that in case of a tie, the vote of the audience should be discarded, and the decision for the evening was given to Yale. At New Haven, Harvard and Yale tied for the honors of the evening, and in Cambridge, Harvard received the unanimous decision of the judges...
Judicial supremacy is a question which is frequently brought before the people by the decisions of the Supreme Court. Certainly a good case can be made out against that worthy body which is all-powerful in the United States. One instance comes to mind. By one vote the Supreme Court decided against the legality of the Volstead Act. To vest so much power in nine men, or one man even in this case, does not appear to be altogether logical sensible or just...
...which Governor Smith might, without legerdemain, draw is Massachusetts. Calvin Coolidge once governed it; but it has Wets, Catholics, immigrants; it sent last fall Catholic-Democrat David Ignatius Walsh to the Senate. Give its 18 votes to Smith, Smith's total becomes 262. Looking for 4 more votes, Governor Smith must cast his eyes far into the sunset. Wyoming might well turn Democratic again-but it has only 3 votes. But one step south is Colorado with 6 votes and last fall Colorado elected a Democratic governor. Give Colorado's vote to Smith, his total becomes...