Word: polltax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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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