Word: polls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Voters in Virginia and Texas put another dent in the rusty Southern argument that civil rights could best be guaranteed by letting the states do their own housecleaning. Virginia's proposal to repeal the poll tax was defeated by a majority of nearly four to one. But many organizations which wanted to abolish the tax-including church, labor, Negro and veterans' groups-fought the Byrd machine's proposal as complicated and dishonest. They feared that the blank-check authority it granted the Byrd-controlled legislature to set up new voting requirements might prove more harmful to their...
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Fifteen per cent of undergraduates are concentrating in the field of government, which gives that field the lead over Economics in the popularity poll for the second straight year, the Committee on Electives disclosed Saturday. Government has 604 concentrators as against 499 specializing in Economics, according to the Committee's report...
...final pre-election Gallup Poll showed Lehman holding 46 per cent of the voter sentiment as against 34 per cent for Dulles. The remaining 20 per cent declared themselves undecided...
Action on the food problem now requires two things. First, it must be proved that a problem actually exists and that complaints are not mere gripes. Last year's Council poll has proved completely useless in doing this. Until the Administration is convinced that the food is not good enough as it is, no major changes in the system will occur...