Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extended citizenship to the colored race. Section 2 of the same amendment provided for the apportionment of representatives among the several States according to their respective numbers and also provided that the basis of representation "shall" be reduced in proportion to the number of citizens denied the right to vote. No one so far as I am aware seriously contends that the right to vote has not been denied to citizens in a certain number of States. . . . GEORGE HOLDEN TINKHAM...
...world that I believe a license for light wines and beers would be a great improvement over the present Prohibition laws. ... I find a good many of the members of Congress feel just about as I do but lack the moral courage to stand up and vote as they believe." Three weeks later Senator Gould reported to the company his progress as a winemaker: "It [two kegsful] was working quite lively. In fact the pressure was so great that the head of the kegs was bulged. I worked the gas off gradually and finally got the bung...
...first test of strength-the vote on the Borah resolution-the coalition was beaten, 39 to 38. But 38 represented the virtual rock bottom of the coalition's strength which could be augmented by minor compromises, when the item-by-item voting comes. Senator Borah, in a thunderous speech, predicted the cement duty would add null to the cost of road building, denounced the glass schedules from "eyes to mirrors," vowed he would rather see no bill passed than that produced by the House...
Democrats hailed this Minnesota by-election, called it "significant." In a district where Democratic vote crops have been measly for years, the party's nominee ran within 4,000 votes of Candidate Nolan (23.336 to 19,755). Reason: "agricultural inequalities" in the proposed new tariff...
...Reasons given for lynchings have been: murder, rape, "incendiary language," unpopularity, talking back to a white man, jilting white girls, not jilting them, attempting court action against white men, forgetting to use "sir," seeming prosperous, attempting to enter a car where white men were sitting, attempting to vote or run for office, mistaken identity, standing in the way of a cool breeze...