Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sister, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson. They are to attend the great ball given by Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia. For reporters, Lady Astor had some of her customary quixotic generalities: "I am a wily old politician and I won't be trapped. . . . Women do not vote as do their husbands. That is one of the delusions men have which they must get over. I can say, however, that many men vote as do their wives. . . . It would not matter now if the Labor Party won at the [British] general election, because labor has stopped killing capitalists in England...
Irene Bordoni, actress, brought with her on the Ile de France a folding portable bar equipped with a sign: "Vote for Al Smith." A baby born at sea to a French mother and Polish father was christened Samuel (Kosman) in honor of famed mythical "Uncle Sam." Others on the Ile de France were Elsie Ferguson, Raymond Orteig, donor of the $25,000 Paris-New York flight prize which Hero Lindbergh captured, Senator Lawrence C. Phipps of Colorado, who had trouble with the customs officials...
Along with men an equal "vote...
...Flappers" & "Reds." The song sums up in a few catchy and atrocious rhymes the nub of what Stanley Baldwin had to say when he finally arose and spoke. The line about "ladies" having "along with men an equal vote" refers to the chief accomplishment of the Baldwin Cabinet, namely enfranchisement of 5,000,000 young British women by the passage of the famed Equal Franchise ("Votes for Flappers") Bill (TIME, Aug. 13 et ante...
...almost the theme of Prime Minister Baldwin's platform speech. Said he: "The great campaign issue is once more, as it was in 1924, the challenge of Socialism against constitutionalism and against British individualism. On that issue the way that the People of Great Britain will vote cannot be doubted...