Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Again. Last week, as Virginians hotly argued over the State Supreme Court's invalidation of their soldier ballot act, cool Virginius Dabney celebrated the conclusion of his tenth year in command of the Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial page by harping gently on a familiar string. Since the poll tax is the nub of the soldier-vote question, why not-he suggested-use the projected constitutional convention to repeal the poll tax? Virginia's Bourbons, who pride themselves on the fact that the purpose of the poll tax is and always has been to limit the vote, shook their...
...less than 50,000 votes since 1940, while Franklin Roosevelt had slipped 747,000. The popular vote for all the U.S. last week, including some soldier votes, stood at 53.4% for Roosevelt. His total civilian vote was about 52.5%-exactly the estimate of FORTUNE'S secret civilian ballot. FORTUNE'S other estimate of 53.6%, based on a series of questions, was about 1% high; Gallup, and Crossley about...
...Helen Petacque of Chicago rushed to cast her ballot at 6:45 a.m., rushed on to the hospital, where she gave birth to a 7 lb.-7½ oz. girl...
...FORTUNE'S secret ballot, marked while the interviewer was not looking, varied 1% in Dewey's favor: Roosevelt, 52.5%; Dewey...
...answers the title-question promptly, briefly, and in the same way, then passes on to what really interests him: how the Negro is to get what he wants. All 14 want "complete equality in the body politic," "full social equality," "first-class citizenship," "the same racial equality at the ballot box that we have at the income-tax window." But on the "how" of getting these things, Editor Logan's 14 writers split basically into two camps, choosing roughly between the methods of two famous Negro leaders: conservative, cautious, compromising Booker T. Washington and politically aggressive Frederick Douglass...