Word: polle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nation-wide poll on the prohibition question is being conducted among the various colleges and universities of the United States by the National Student Federation of America, the results of which are expected to furnish one of the main topics of discussion at the Federation Conference to be held next December at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Although no political results of the discussion are contemplated, it is felt that the investigation will be of value in summarizing and crystalizing undergraduate opinion...
...poll is being directed by a committee of four from the Liberal Club which volunteered to collect, on behalf of the Federation, all available statistics, and whose offer has been accepted by Lewis Fox, the Federation's President. F. V. Field '27 is chairman of the New England branch of the Confederation...
Each college or university represented last fall at the conference of the Federation at Princeton has been invited to take part in the poll and it has been urged by the Committee that the newspaper of each institution conduct its own balloting and forward a detailed tabulation of the results to the Committee. Should the newspapers be unwilling to undertake the task, the poll might be taken by any other official body...
...hated "sales tax" measure which the Deputies have rejected time and again, the bill passed, thereby increasing the expected tax yield for next year by 12 hundred million francs ($42,000,000). Thereafter 225 million francs ($7,875,000) of added taxes on alcohol were passed, together with a poll tax expected to bring in 570 million francs ($19,950,000). Other miscellaneous taxes passed in quick succession. The whole, together with the taxes passed before the last Briand Cabinet fell (TIME, March 15), totaled a tax increase of somewhat more than four billion francs. This was an accomplishment...
...poll tax scaled like the income tax and amounting to between 60 and 1,500 francs a head. After deliberating for some days, the Committee continued in doubt as to whether it would not be a mere waste of time to send a measure against which so many Deputies were pledged into the Chamber...