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By declaring that he will sponsor a measure liberalizing the franchise (now restricted to male taxpayers 25 years of age and older), Kato has at least temporarily silenced his critics and renewed his grip on the Premiership.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Still Suffrage | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

The influence of the women's vote in the approaching elections can hardly be gauged with accuracy. It will undoubtedly prove to the few remaining skeptics the fallacy of the argument that women would exercise the franchise under fundamentally different political conceptions from men. But the important fact remains,--that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT. | 3/13/1920 | See Source »

Too many voters in the United States today consider the ballot but an immediate opportunity to express their personal feelings on this or that question which comes to the polls. A flagrant and disgraceful example of thoughtless vacillation in the use of the franchise is seen in the result of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CHANGE OF FRONT. | 3/4/1920 | See Source »

Although the extension of the franchise to women will not in all probability be fraught with any very startling political change, the result cannot be other than a steady improvement in the moral plane of American political, social, and economic life. But at the same time the foremost reason for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ADVENT OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE | 6/6/1919 | See Source »

The occasion for this amendment is found in the recent action of the Corporation and of the board of Overseers in extending the right to vote for Overseers to the holders of all Harvard degrees of at least five year's standing. Except that the Officers of Government and Instruction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALUMNI TO VOTE ON MEMBERSHIP INCREASE | 4/10/1916 | See Source »

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