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The world-wide reach of Sinclair Consolidated was flung out by the burly Destiny Man to Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama; to Angola, in Portuguese West Africa; to Russia. Sinclair's technique was to approach the government of a country with the flyleaf of his checkbook showing. "Men mumble...
II. It proposes to rush through, during the present Parliamentary session, the "votes for flappers bill" extending the franchise now enjoyed by British women over 30 down to all who are over 21.
Premier Baldwin later in the day made extension of the franchise the strongest point of his speech on government policy, promising to make Britain "truly democratic" before the next general elections. He then charged Viscount Rothermere, Tzar of British newspaperdom, with sole opposition to granting young women the vote and...
The final step of declaring all U. S. Indians citizens by birth did not come until nearly two-thirds of all Indians in the U. S. had obtained the franchise through naturalization.
This so great excitement in high places over a few trivial words mounted, last week, because the Government is reported on the verge of introducing a bill to extend the franchise to women below the present minimum voting age of 30 - perhaps even down to "flappers" of 21.