Word: manifestos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From President Paul Von Hindenburg and his cabinet came an official manifesto...
Politicians, reading the Organization's first manifesto, paused to ponder these words: "We deplore the evident hypocrisy of many of those who hold or seek public office. Too often it is cynically assumed that so far as the Volstead law is concerned a man's acts need not conform with his votes. We believe in exposing such hypocrisy, because such men are unfit for any public trust...
...greater revival in this country than all the prayers and preachments of all the reformers." In his second lecture, after mocking at the pretentious, windy, ambiguous pronouncements of the quadrennial party platforms, he said: "Why not at the last session of every Congress preceding an election have a party manifesto framed, agreed to and officially promulgated by the representatives of the party in the Senate and House...
...eleventh hour attempt to swing South Africa's coming General Election by virtually disenfranchising the Negroes of Cape Colony was made last week by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog. "We have paused on the brink of a sure and certain abyss," read a Hertzog manifesto, "and the question is: Shall the white race in Africa plunge down to final destruction?" As alternative General Hertzog offered to Parliament a bill which would deprive the Cape Province Negroes of their present "equal franchise," but would permit them to separately elect five white M. P.s-whereas they have had a deciding vote...
...mounted from $14,000,000 to $30,000,000; clay products from $15,000,000 to $23,000,000; boots and shoes from $700,000 to $5,000,000. Photo-Engravers, Tobaccomen, Hatters, Metal workers. Bookbinders, Lithographers and many others studied similarly distressing data. Finally they issued a manifesto of principles and purposes. Among them: Labor demands representation on the Tariff Commission. The Commission should consist of experienced industrialists. Duties should be levied according to U. S. rather than foreign values. Immediate tariff revision is necessary. The President-Elect shall be requested to convene a special session of Congress...