Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against. At 3:15, on the stormy morning of April 6, 1917, when the U. S. House of Representatives voted 373-to-50 to declare that a state of war existed with Germany, a memorable incident took place on the floor. As the clerk called the roll after a day of historic debate, the first woman Representative in U. S. history, and then the only woman in Congress, Montana's Jeannette Rankin, sat silent in her seat instead of voting. Before the second roll call, Uncle Joe Cannon went to her side, begged her, as the Representative...
...bones about saddling French women with various legal disabilities of which many a virile soldier would approve.* Last week several of these shackles were struck off by a bill which originated in the Senate, was passed into law by the Chamber. It did not give French women the vote, did cancel at one stroke the network of laws under which a French wife has been almost as much under her husband's authority as though she were a minor child, unable to sign a check without his countersignature, helpless to make a will or contract without his express approval...
...politics. He would have seen men and women trained in the highest form of public service discovering at long last that the fate of a law hinged not on its justice, not on its wisdom, but on its probable benefit to the law-makers. Legislating is a form of vote getting...
Samuel E. Morison '08, professor of History, who with Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, fought the issue last year, will not be present at the hearing tomorrow. He once told the committee on education that the teachers who had aided curing of the depression "were entitled to a vote of thanks; instead they were told in the cold voice of the ghost in Hamlet: 'swear, swear, swear...
Last week San Antonio's citizens marched to the polls, by a two-to-one vote defeated the bond issue. The Property Owners Defense League and city political machine had won. Next morning the teachers awoke to a grey day. They had not only lost the fight to raise their salaries but, unlike their opponents, would have to pay taxes on their cellos, cows, watches...