Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Moses was a prime campaigner for the nomination of General Leonard Wood for the Presidency. In the South he and others harvested a fat crop of Negro delegates and, according to G. O. P. custom, took them on up to the convention at Chicago, all expenses paid, to vote for Wood. Quartered at the Vincennes Hotel, these black Republicans ate, drank and slept up $3,850 worth of hospitality. Only $1,500 was ever paid on their account by General Wood's unsuccessful managers...
...Lexington: "If you're going to get anywhere politically, you've got to learn not to accept payment for your vote...
...last five years the Navy was up in Congress for debate and action, a big thick-shouldered man in a tweed suit, a red necktie and yellow shoes, could generally be found striding up and clown the Capitol's corridors, buttonholing Congressmen and Senators, passionately urging them to vote for the biggest kind of U. S. fleet, hoarsely warning them against the imperialism of Great Britain. His name was William B. Shearer. He was in his early 40's. His voice was the voice of a 16-in. gun booming arguments and demands for more ships. Well-heeled...
Valuation. The cost of an article abroad (foreign value) is now used to assess ad valorem duties. The Finance Committee voted to change the system to domestic or U. S. valuation?then crossed its fingers and postponed the effective date to Jan. 1, 1932. Domestic value is "the price at which imported merchandise is freely offered for sale in the principal markets of the U. S. in wholesale quantities." The committee's purpose was to change the system of valuation without changing the scale of protection. The Tariff Commission was ordered to calculate the conversion and submit to Congress...
Born in Pennsylvania 60 years ago, a Cleveland City Councilman before he was 30, Mr. Hopkins in 1924 left successful business enterprises which had amply enriched him to become Cleveland's first manager. Three times in almost three years Cleveland citizens have been asked to vote down the city manager plan by Harry Lyman Davis, onetime Governor of Ohio and mayor of Cleveland, who sought to restore "the city government to the people" - and the politicians. To the defense of Manager Hopkins' government flocked the women. They campaigned for him. made house-to-house canvasses...