Word: polls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After windy debate and eight time-consuming roll calls by the Southern bloc, the House passed the anti-poll tax bill last week by a vote of 273 to 116. The House had approved it before-in 1942, 1943, 1945 and 1947-only to have it die in the Senate. The seven poll tax states would be required to eliminate the tax in all federal elections. Southern Senators vowed to filibuster it to death again...
Early returns on a CRIMSON poll indicate that the Faculty believes Communists should not be allowed to teach at colleges. The first 182 answers to the same questionnaire distributed to students last Friday show a two to one vote against permitting such teachers to hold positions in any branch of the faculty...
...poll, taken in House and Union dining halls during lunch and dinner, undergraduates voted 672 to 507 in favor of letting Communists teach in the social sciences, 763 to 412 in favor of letting them teach in the humanities, and 902 to 304 in favor of letting them teach in the sciences...
Thus Harvard students, who voted for Dewey over Truman by 1013 to 508 in a CRIMSON poll last fall, came out in opposition to the stand taken by President Conant Thursday, when he joined 19 other educators in issuing a report that said, that Communist Party members "should not be employed as teachers...
...poll at Radcliffe indicated that Annext students also are in favor of letting Communists teach at colleges. 'Cliffe returns were 41 to 32 in favor of letting Communists teach in the social sciences, 52 to 23 in favor of letting them teach in the humanities, and 58 to 16 in favor of letting them teach in the sciences...