Elaine white is the author of this book, its called the womens power. Ms. White, nashville August August 1920, how was it like . Sleepy Southern City in summer, time you drink tea and sit on your porch and nashville became the center of the political universe in the United States for several weeks in the summer of 1920 because tennessee might be the last and deciding state to ratify the 19th amendment and Tennessee Legislature did, then women across the country in every state, in every election for the first time, all women would have the right to vote and was all coming down to tennessee and got really wild. How many women for at voting age . 27 million women of voting age, of course, not all would vote and as we know for africanamerican women and for asian women and for native american women they would not be allowed to vote, the 19th amendment did give vote to all women but jim crow laws in the south and other state laws denied the vote to quite a few women, minorities, 27 million w
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Again. he behaves so brazenly, impudently, it s generally, its just terrible, what happened, its not even not amenable to humans explaining how a person can do this to people, this time pavel volosov faces life imprisonment in a maximum security colony, the investigator will find out where the defendant got the sharpener, how he brought it to court, because he must be examined upon leaving the pretrial detention cell were as thorough as possible. Tamara simonova, oksana goncharenko and nikita zabrodin, ntv television company. The sixtyyearold owner of an apartment in northern tushino is being sought by investigators and his husband, they all have questions for nikolai yushchenko, while he is the main suspect in a murder case, the body of an unknown woman was found in the bathroom, but yushchenko himself disappeared, the phone was turned off, stanislav kostikov reports from the scene. Residents of this communal apartment in the northwest of moscow have recently often heard some strange
Im Francine Lacqua. Manus im manus cranny. Shall we get into this breaking did . Francine we have some european encompass it pmi. Composite pmi falling to 52. 5. Analysts were forecasting 52 5. 5 manus the eurodollar declining. Germany missed on that as well. For the compass it for the whole of europe, it also missed. Francine actually the services pmi fell more than the manufacturing pmi. Lets bring and stephen morel. Great to have you on the program. When you look at the pmi, how much do we care about this . We are still so worried about greece worried about what happens with the debt relief and we are lori that italy may become the next greece. Pmi meh . Stephen if you look at the composite pmi there has been an improvement over the last six to 12 months. Their something that becomes an issue as well. The nature of the euro. Its a q. E. Currency. The balance of payments data suggest significant outflows. If you look at the net errors account, there are clear signs there. Of capital
He becomes the first englishman to take 500 test wickets, in the deciding match against the west indies. And louise has the weather. Good morning. It is an autumnal start to the weekend. A day of sunny spells and scattered showers. But some of the showers will be heavy, with some hail and thunder, and rather breezy out to the west. More details coming up. Good morning. First, our main story. Millions of people have been warned to evacuate from florida as Hurricane Irma approaches the United States. The huge storm, which has left a path of destruction across the caribbean, made its way along the coast of cuba last night. Its expected to reach florida tomorrow. It is the first time a category five hurricane has slashed the country in decades and is expected to reach florida tomorrow. Some of the worst affected caribbean islands are now bracing themselves for the arrival of a second hurricane jose is reported to have strengthened with winds of up to iso miles per hour. Our north america c