Word: casting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...half a century under the leadership of such doughty heroines as Amelia Bloomer and Susan B. Anthony. In 1869 the Wyoming territorial legislature passed a female suffrage bill, and in 1870 Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie put on a clean apron and became the first American woman ever to cast a vote in an election. Twenty years later, Congress threatened to block Wyoming's admission as a state because of the local suffrage law, and Wyoming's worried territorial delegate wired home for official guidance. Back came the gallant telegraphed answer: "We may stay out of the Union...
After suffering so much for suffrage, women were oddly hesitant about exercising their voting rights. Not until 1928, when Al Smith's Catholicism, Tammany Hall connections and anti-Prohibitionist sympathies roused a feminine stampede for Herbert Hoover, did as many as 50% of the eligible women cast their ballots...
...knowing why, she kisses a male cousin, then nervously examines pictures thrust at her by street boys. Abruptly the world is darkened. Director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, a Swedish-descended Argentine, shows his debt to Sweden's Ingmar Bergman in simple scenes that to Ana take on a cast of evil-an old woman rapping angrily on a window with her crutch, a man's black-trousered legs visible beneath a mansion gate...
...show how they might change by election day. Gallup excludes as nonvoters people who are not citizens, who failed to vote in the last national election, or who have failed to register thus far. Each section of the country is represented in proportion to the number of votes it cast in the total vote in the last national election. Since 1948, when Gallup stopped polling in mid-October, after having predicted Dewey's victory over Harry Truman, Gallup findings have deviated only 1.7% from election results. But the recent poll soon landed Gallup in a soup of controversy...
...pediment. Victories and Liberties are rather pagan emblems, but a Liberty, I fear, is the best we can get." And so Sculptor Thomas Crawford set to work in his studio in Rome. The model he made was nearly lost at sea. but eventually his 14,985-lb. statue, cast in bronze, was raised by steam hoist to its permanent perch. It is the strange figure that looms behind the heads of Senator Margaret Chase Smith and her opponent, Maine Assemblywoman Lucia Cormier, on this week's cover of TIME. It is a lady of earnest intention but of dubious...