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- adjective Opposing
suffrage .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Secrecy also prevailed when the USBA paid the nationally known suffragist Phoebe Couzins to repudiate her previous position and mount an ostensibly independent campaign as an antisuffrage speaker and writer.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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Secrecy also prevailed when the USBA paid the nationally known suffragist Phoebe Couzins to repudiate her previous position and mount an ostensibly independent campaign as an antisuffrage speaker and writer.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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Their reach into the streets and alleyways of many cities was further lengthened by a previously unexampled instance of labor-management amity, as self-interest placed tens of thousands of brewery employees not to mention barrel makers and wagon drivers and ice haulers and scores of other working legions at the ready for the next antisuffrage rally or referendum.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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Their reach into the streets and alleyways of many cities was further lengthened by a previously unexampled instance of labor-management amity, as self-interest placed tens of thousands of brewery employees not to mention barrel makers and wagon drivers and ice haulers and scores of other working legions at the ready for the next antisuffrage rally or referendum.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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In subsequent plays and stories, Meyer dramatized the “woman question” and reflected a “separate spheres” ideology, which evolved into a conservative antisuffrage position.
Annie Nathan Meyer. 2009
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It did not, and Mr. Murdock, though never again quite as bitter as he had been, soon resumed the free editorial expression of his antisuffrage sentiments.
The Story of a Pioneer Anna Howard Shaw 1883
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Portland held a small body of women with antisuffrage sentiments, and there were others in the state who formed themselves into an anti-suffrage society and carried on
The Story of a Pioneer Anna Howard Shaw 1883
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Michigan’s entrance into the Prohibition column was helped along by the revelation that the Macomb County Liquor Dealers’ Association had been financing the state’s antisuffrage forces.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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The brewers’ antisuffrage position was fortified by their millions of dollars.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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Michigan’s entrance into the Prohibition column was helped along by the revelation that the Macomb County Liquor Dealers’ Association had been financing the state’s antisuffrage forces.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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