Word: districts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Constituent of the 5th District. The United States Government was taking action with which I did not agree. I knew that there was a legal, constitutional method of making my opinions known on the subject by voting for a representative who would represent my beliefs. In accordance with the constitution and laws of the United States I went to the polls and voted in a legal, constitutional manner. A friend of mine, an advocate of direct action, smiled; he told me it was useless. Despite many disappointments I held faithful to my believe in indirect, representative, legal, constitutional action...
...that Congress says we will allow only the men who agree with us to deliberate with us that day marks the end of representative government. Constituent of 5th District. W. McD. POND...
Latest returns last evening assured the re-election of Calvin Coolidge for Governor of Massachusetts by a plurality of from 50,000 to 100,000. A record vote was cast, exceeding that of 520,000 which was polled in 1916. Mr. Coolidge gained tremendously in every district; in Boston alone latest returns last night indicated that Long's plurality had been...
...this country--who support the Russian revolution; and that does not make them Russians. When such a radical Americanizer approaches an immigrant, there is often no Conservative Americanizer present to compete with him. To take a single example: in a recent meeting of steel strikers in the Pittsburgh district, an investigating Senator asked all those present who could understand English to raise their hands. In the crowded hall three hands were lifted. "At the same time," Lt. Van Buren reports, "the government seized literally tons of the socalled Red Bible of Lenine and Trotzky, which is being distributed among just...
...report given out last night by the Greater Boston Committee of the Harvard Endowment Fund Campaign, it was indicated that in this district the most effective work during the last week has been done by the manufacturing, financial, medical, architectural, trustee and insurance groups of the campaigners. The above groups have so far obtained more than half of their allotment, as in comparison with the 40 per cent, covered by the three next highest groups. The remaining 11 groups are somewhat lower than this, while the general average for the whole city stands at 41 per cent...