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Nebraska Township is a small (pop. 285) farm community in the southwestern part of Iowa. In a traditionally G.O.P. county, Nebraska Township has gone Democratic in several national elections-for Al Smith in 1928, Roosevelt in 1932 and 1936, Truman in 1948. Last week a Des Moines Register poll among most of Nebraska Township's 145 potential voters found 82 for Eisenhower, 33 for Stevenson. Of Eisenhower's supporters, 16 had voted for Truman in 1948; of Stevenson's, one had voted for Dewey...
...Poll Tax. Males under 65 pay $2 annual tax. It is not requisite for voting but such payment is evidence of residence...
Comments on life in Radcliffe's newest dormitory are mostly favorable, according to an informal poll yesterday. "There is nothing this place does not have!", Lois Williams '53, temporary hall president, said last night...
Though-most U.S. newspapers oppose Adlai Stevenson, he could not complain about the preferences of reporters covering the campaigns. A poll of Stevenson's train last week showed that 19 are for Stevenson and nine for Ike; five are still undecided. On Ike's campaign train a poll showed: 24 for Stevenson, seven for Ike, six undecided. Nevertheless, relations between Stevenson and reporters were not always rosy. He has held only five press conferences since his nomination, prefers to make his policy statements in speeches without questioning from the press. Complained the New York Times's James...
...take long to dig them up. Reporter Hill went to an outlying district, found that the dead, insane and bedridden sick had been voted. The paper covered its front page with printed registration records and poll slips to show the forged signatures...