Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mild. Not that John Sparkman is an integrationist-far from it. Over the years he has voted against more than 100 civil rights bills. But to diehard segregationists, he has never sounded as though he really meant it. Last week, in a Senate speech against an anti-poll-tax amendment to the voting rights bill, Sparkman said stolidly: "Legislation such as this, which is not designed to be applicable to the whole nation at large, is not sound, and Congress should think long and hard before it plunges emotionally into promulgating an extreme measure...
Lost Sheep. Teddy was the leader of a band of Senate liberals attempting to tack onto the voting-rights bill an amendment to outlaw poll taxes in state and local elections. The move was strongly opposed by President Johnson. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, and Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, who questioned the constitutionality of Teddy's amendment...
...Teddy's wife, Joan, in a pink frock; Sister Eunice Shriver; and Bobby's wife, Ethel. Temporarily presiding over the session was Bobby himself. Taking the floor against the amendment, Dirksen asked: "If Congress can tell the states by statute this afternoon that they cannot impose a poll tax, why not tell them they cannot impose a cigarette tax or any other tax?" Democratic Leader Mansfield worried that the amendment might endanger the entire voting-rights bill. "The choice," he said, "is between the course of risk and the course of sureness...
...front-row desk next to Mansfield's, which he had appropriated for the occasion, and speaking from notes, defended the first major item of legislation he had ever managed on the floor. "It is a settled constitutional doctrine," orated Teddy, by way of rationalizing a universal ban on poll taxes, "that where Congress finds an evil to exist, such as the economic burden in this case, it can apply a remedy which may affect people outside the evil...
...representative from Dunster House who helped prepare the HUC report, Henry M. Sondheimer '66, pointed out that the new system would result in the Deans' doing most of the selection. In an HUC poll, 81 per cent of the student body preferred selection by the Masters instead of the Deans...