Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...retire the national debt; this time the President had to make a political move and make it quickly. The announcement came from the White House: A study of the revenue returns shows a surplus in excess of $250,000,000; hence the President will recommend that Congress speedily vote a 10% or 12% rebate or refund on the income taxes payable in 1926 for incomes of the calendar year 1925. This applies to all corporations, industries, individuals, but not to so-called nuisance and admission taxes...
...What if, suddenly, from the White House today, the phrase 'predatory wealth' came crashing out? Remember that Theodore Roosevelt attacked decisions of the Supreme Court. Remember that he demanded the recall of judicial decisions by popular vote. Remember that he stood for the initiative and referendum; the primary; the eight-hour day; child labor laws; workmen's compensation, and had no word to say against the closed shop...
During the last seven years the national gorge has been rising. Last week Norwegians streamed to the polls and repudiated national prohibition by a referendum vote...
...reported in Princeton. Denied access to the campus he was receiving young men at his lodging in the town. Realizing that among the first to visit Mr. Buchman would most likely be the leaders of the campus religious organization, the Philadelphian Society, the students attended a mass meeting and voted, 394 to 18, that President Hibben appoint a committee to investigate the Philadelphian Society for "undesirable Buchmanism." There was also a vote of 253 to 85 to the effect that "undesirable Buchmanism" was actually in vogue with the Philadelphian Society. Ironically, the mass meeting had been called by the Society...
...thought that, although all the members of Parliament were not associated with the Anti-Saloon League, at least the House should not let a breath of the affair get outside. It is quite a pity that with all the strength on his side, as shown by the House's vote against Salter, the Premier could not have shown more spirit in the matter either by declaring himself in favor of a cleaner Commons or of a strict laisser-faire policy in regard to the personal rights of the Members of Parliament. Instead, he merely decried the fact that news...