Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...corrupt influence of property owners, corporations and rich men: Adams, Public Debts, p. 365. - (c) Businesslike administration and present broad suffrage are not necessarily inconsistent, as shown by - (1) Reformed city governments. - (2) Perfection of certain departments, e. g., Fire and Police Departments. - (3) Foreign experience, e. g., Birmingham: Forum, Vol. 14, p. 267. - (4) The judgment of reformers and practical men. - (d) Undesirable voters can be excluded in more direct and practicable ways. - (1) The ignorant, by an educational qualification. - (2) The corrupt, by more efficient bribery laws. - (3) Criminals by disfranchisement. - (4) The "floaters," by residence qualifications...
Concerts will be given at Brighton, Hastings, and several other resorts along the channel, after which the clubs will go to London. Passing north toward Scotland they will play at Sheffield, Nottingham, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Glasgow. From Glasgow they will go to Liverpool, where the clubs will disband. This will be the first trip of the kind ever undertaken by an American college and according to the present prospects its success is almost assured...
...proposed that a series of foot-ball games be played with teams throughout a number of the Southern States, and a definite arrangement has been made for games in Richmond, Charlotte, N. C., Birmingham, Atlanta, and New Orleans, between the University of Pennsylvania and representative teams from those cities. The trip will begin on December 18, when the 'varsity team will leave for Richmond, where they play their first game. The following games will extend through two weeks, until the last date in New Orleans, when the team will return home and break training for the year. This winter tour...
...Blaine the father' of reciprocity, Boston Post, April 21.- [b] His party renounces him and chooses Blaine; Republican Convention at Cincinnati; Republican Club, Mass.; Boston Post, April 21, 22; Globe, April 10, 11, 12, 22; Herald, April 9; Memphis Avalanche, Nov. 10.- [c] Misunder stands his party's principles; Birmingham Speech, Post. April 18; Johnson City Speech, Post, April...