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• Insurer Bribed State Officials for 17 Years, Insurance Superindendent Charges

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  The Phenix Fire Insurance Company evaded state investigation for the past 17 years by bribing former officials of the New York State Insurance Department with "loans," the departments superintendent, William H. Hotchkiss, says.
  15 hours ago

• Rally for Girl Strikers Packs Hippodrome

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  Making up 85 percent of a crowd of 8,000 at the Hippodrome yesterday, girls in the shirtwaist makers strike were encouraged in speeches by womens suffrage advocates, as well as labor leaders and socialists.
  1 day ago

• Five Shot in Bridgeport; Martial Law Declared

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  Strikers rioted yesterday in Bridgeport, Ohio, and the village has been placed under martial law.
  2 days ago

• Striking Shirtwaist Workers March on City Hall

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  One thousand striking shirtwaist workers marched on City Hall today to present to the lame-duck mayor, George B. McClellan Jr., their demands for fair treatment by the New York City Police.
  3 days ago

• The Picket Line — 3 December 2009

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 159
  3 December 2009 Way back in book one , Aristotle teased us with the idea that there were three types of people: the vulgar, to whom simple pleasures are the ultimate good; the political, to whom honor is the ultimate good; and the contemplative, whom he promised he’d explain in due time. That time has finally ...
  4 days ago

• Susan B Anthony And Womens Rights, Native Americans

  
  Melissas Homeschool Blog — Authority: 129
  We have been studying Native Americans this year. Below are some videos that kids will enjoy to help cover the info they have learned. One of my favorite Americans in history, is Susan B. Anthony. Without her womens rights may have never came to be, or came much later in history. I still think women are not ...
  5 days ago

• U.S. Breaks Relations With Nicaraguan Dictator

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  The United States announced last night that it has broken off relations with the government of Nicaragua under José Santos Zelaya, and opened diplomatic channels with his rival, Gen. Juan Estrada. The move "brings the crisis as near the status of war as it could be brought by Executive action."
  5 days ago

• Switchmen Strike at Railroads in Northwest

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  Switchmen from St. Paul to the Pacific Coast went on strike yesterday evening after railroad managers refused their demands for a raise of 6 cents an hour, overtime pay for work in excess of 10 hours, and double pay for Sundays.
  6 days ago

• Mother Jones Speaks Out for Convicted Caricaturist

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  Mother Jones spoke last night at a meeting at the Berkeley Theatre to protest the sentencing of Carlo de Fornaro to one years hard labor after conviction on a charge of libel for caricaturing a Mexican editor and politician, Rafael Reyes Espindola, in his book published last year.
  1 week ago

• Indistinguishable From Aristocracy

  
  Broadway Carl's Blog-O-Mania — Authority: 139
  posted by Armadillo Joe Mrs. Joe and I are fans of the show House Hunters on HGTV , including its offspring House Hunters International . Last night, we watched an episode called Londoners Seek a More Leisurely Life in France . A synopsis : Stephanie and Charlie May have lived in the fast lane in London for ...
  1 week ago

• Thanksgiving Pulpit Used to Attack Suffrage

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  The Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church took the opportunity of his Thanksgiving Day sermon yesterday to attack the campaign for womens right to vote, by attempting to denigrate some of those who support it.
  1 week ago

• Sufferin suffragettes

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 479
  Theres a tendency to romanticize our foremothers in whats known as the 1st wave of feminism . Back then, sometimes, they were called by the diminutive term "suffragettes"; theyre known today, more often, as "suffragists." We think of them -- indeed, we IntLawGrrls have posted on them -- as hardy women: ► Women ...
  1 week ago

• Wright Brothers to Open Aeroplane Factory

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  The Wright brothers announced plans yesterday for a factory in Dayton, Ohio, that would make four aeroplanes a month and have 80 employees. "We propose to have the first and largest airship factory in the country - to have it here at home and to conduct it for the manufacture of aeroplanes and the testing of new ...
  1 week ago

• Court Orders Dissolution of Standard Oil Co.

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  In the equivalent of an appeals court decision, the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey has been ruled "an illegal combination operating in restraint of trade." Frank B. Kellogg, United States special prosecutor, said the government won the case on every point argued.
  2 weeks ago

• Labor Denounces Judge in Gompers Case

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  An American Federation of Labor convention denounced the judge that sentenced Samuel Gompers and two other officials to jail for violating an injunction against boycotts, and set as goals an eight-hour work day and the establishment of a Department of Labor.
  2 weeks ago

• Hong Kong unveils ‘crucial step’ towards electoral democracy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Hong Kong, Nov 18 (DPA) Hong Kong’s government Wednesday unveiled a package of proposed electoral reforms for 2012 that it described as a “crucial step” towards full democracy in the city of seven million.The proposals, contained in a public consultation document, aim to show that the government is pressing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Harvard Officials Are Fossilized Mollusks, Suffragist Says

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  In her opening address to a mass meeting for womens suffrage last night at Carnegie Hall, Frances Squire Potter compared Harvard officials to fossilized mollusks for blocking admission last month to Inez Milholland, a Vassar graduate who had been accepted into Harvard Law.
  2 weeks ago

• Mammograms unnecessary until age 50

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 139
  Mammograms unnecessary until age 50Abortion, for any reason, decreed an uninsurable, non-medical procedure.Has the XIXth Amendment been repealed and they failed to notify us?That one grants both/all of the sexes the right to vote. These two recent events seem to deny the fact that women still have the franchise.I ...
  2 weeks ago

• Women Had Right to Vote, Lost it, Then got back the right to vote

  
  Symon Sez — Authority: 129
  New Jersey Women Stormed To Take Back What Was Once Theirs Early Suffrage Poster Featuring George On This Date in History: The original constitution of the state of New Jersey said that “all inhabitants” who met residency requirements and had a net worth of at least 50 pounds had the right to vote. I ...
  2 weeks ago

• Caruso Is Back and So Is the Met

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  The Metropolitan Opera opened its season brilliantly last night, with Enrico Caruso back and in excellent voice as Enzo in "La Gioconda" under the direction of Arturo Toscanini.
  3 weeks ago

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