Word: polltax
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...brought together union officials, minority leaders, student activists, women voters, and academic and intellectual circles. One of its signal achievements has been the partial awakening of the so-called "Sleeping Giant of Texas Politics," the Latin American vote. It has also just completed one of the most successful polltax drives in recent memory. And it will probably add great vigor to the liberal effort in the 1962 elections. Despite its definite liberal orientation, however, it continues to insist that it is "trying to build a Democratic Party without prefix or suffix...
...fiercest blasts were directed at Administration mismanagement, but Truman steadfastly continued to vote the New Deal line. When it came to choosing a Vice President, this made him palatable to C.I.O. as a compromise choice. He has voted as a liberal on Negro measures, such as anti-polltax measures. He is halfway a Southerner (his Confederate parents were driven from their home in the Civil War), so the Southerners can swallow him. And he has been so consistently "regular" that the bosses know he can be trusted to go down the line. So last week in Chicago, the mousy-looking...
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