Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What complicated things and heightened undergraduate anger was the decision of another local registration board that students at the Princeton Graduate College and the Princeton Theological Seminary* could vote in Princeton...
With President Hibben's approval, the undergraduates instituted a boycott of Princeton's shopkeepers, whose chief subsistence is the undergraduate trade. "No Vote-No Trade," "Recrimination for Discrimination," cried campus signs. This phase of the affair was reminiscent of the origin of it all. Last year the Princeton undergraduates were not allowed to vote in a mayoral primary election. Reason alleged: one of the candidates was Benjamin Franklin ("Bacon") Bunn, keeper of the co-operative store on the University campus. Another candidate, a onetime faculty member named Van Nest, believed that the students would pour out to vote...
...laid each brick. All through the summer he has troweled vigorously, whenever he could snatch the time, assisted by his hodcarrying daughters, Sarah, Diana. By thus bricklaying, smart "Winnie" Churchill has achieved two objectives. His embonpoint is somewhat reduced; and. what with elections coming on, he has reaped much vote-getting publicity among the myriads of laboring Britons who have seen him troweling and slathering mortar in the "picture papers." Since the whimsical Chancellor has actually carried his stunt to the extreme of joining a bricklayers' union, he was able to display to Agent Gilbert a union card...
From the Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville, Tenn., last week came a strange suggestion to the nuns of his diocese. "Don't vote," he said in effect. His reason: the obvious hostile comment upon nuns' voting would be that they were helping to swell the Smith vote total and that the Church was massed for Smith; this he wished to avoid...
From the listeners: "Unfair! Sit down! Vote! Hear...