Word: equalizers
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...clear the way for the TV battles, Congress last week passed, and the President signed, a bill revising "equal-time" regulations so as to bar any splinter-party candidate from claiming equal network time with Kennedy and Nixon...
...Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, for financial aid. Vanderbilt obligingly set the sisters up in a Wall Street firm of their own, Woodhull, Claflin & Co., and helped it along with friendly financial tips. He also set Tennessee up as his mistress. The firm prospered, and as a successful businesswoman, Victoria demanded equal rights with men and proclaimed herself a candidate for the presidency...
...Right to Drown. By 1912 the suffrage movement was almost respectable, despite such zealots as Lida Stokes Adams, who demanded women's right to drown. The lifeboats of the Titanic, she insisted, should have been filled "with an equal number of men." A mammoth suffrage parade down Fifth Avenue, with Lillian Russell and 15,000 other marchers impressed the nation and won large-scale public sympathy. After that, bloomer-clad suffragettes paraded in front of the White House, pinned jonquils on the lapels of sympathetic Congressmen. Theo dore Roosevelt endorsed the cause, and in 1918 Woodrow Wilson surrendered, urged...
...done; Macleod is with us!" Turning away in cold anger, a white settler muttered: "Now you've had your pound of flesh." Commented the London Spector: "It is a savage irony that future generations in Kenya will be able to point to 1960 as the year when the equality of the races was finally demonstrated, not by the granting of rights to Africans to farm on the White Highlands, or to become members of white clubs, but by the proposition that all men, regardless of color, are equal on the end of a rope...
...Station work in the mornings, now gives afternoons and evenings to the civilian clinics, which are scheduled to run through Sept. 15. By then, most of the state's susceptible population will have had two Salk inoculations, an estimated 150,000 shots by spray gun and an equal number by the conventional needle...