Word: polling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Role of Servant. Brownell's present civil rights program is the result of three years' intensive study (TIME. May 6). Such measures as anti-poll-tax legislation and a fair employment practices commission were considered and cast aside as too harsh or unworkable. The program, as finally accepted and recommended by Brownell, seeks primarily to provide tools for enforcing civil rights statutes already on the books. It is especially aimed at securing for Negroes their right to vote, which both Brownell and the program's Southern enemies recognize as the heart of the whole problem of discrimination...
...almost everybody seemed to have reservations about the ability of the 63-year-old publisher with the too-elegant Edwardian manners. He was decried as "a gay amateur," "a political dilettante," "a foppish phrasemaker," or, if praised, praised with fingers crossed. The Tories, seeing their popularity drop in poll after poll, in by-election after by-election, were close to demoralization...
...these details is the name to be given to organizations which allow Radcliffe members. Johnson felt that such organizations change their name from "Harvard" to "Harvard-Radcliffe." In a poll taken for the Council by Richard P. Zimon '58, a majority of representatives favoring 'Cliffe integration also favored changing their groups' names...
Harvard's Poll...
Concerning the poll on religious beliefs at Harvard [April 8]: of all the Harvard men I know, there has, alas, never been one with a lively faith in anything but himself...