Word: polle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Burkett, it was alleged in court later, had been prevented, as part of Maury's cleanup, from signing bonds for vice case defendants. Mr. Shook having shaken up some other interesting combinations, emerged from his laboratory with several indictments, on charges of paying and conspiring to pay the poll taxes of others (a prison offense in Texas). Most interesting name on the list was Mayor Maverick...
...State tried to show that Maverick and his co-defendants conspired to spend Maverick money in 50? pieces to pay the $1.50 poll tax for an I. L. G. W. U. member so he could help elect him. (By Texas law, no one can vote without paying a poll tax.) Defense maintained that the money was spent legally for campaign purposes...
...morning's session will conclude with a series of speeches, describing technique analysis. I. A. Richards and Stuart Chase will discuss semantics; and Claude Robinson, poll technique. Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Lynd, co-authors of "Middletown in Transition," will make the final addresses...
Miss Gallup admitted it was the first poll she had ever directed. But said with a blush that if represented a cross section of the girls...
Taken by Miss Anne Gallup '41, who claimed to be the daughter of Dr. George Gallup of the American Institute of Public Opinion, the poll was conducted in the five big Shepard Street dorms, Briggs, Eliot, Whitman, Bernard, and Cabot...