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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine referenda facing Massachusetts voters today, only four--Questions 5, 6, and 7, the "labor referenda," and Question 4, the birth control measure--have provoked angry debate. Two other measures have also stirred up some controversy, but it is doubtful whether much of the citizenry even knows they are on the ballot...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: The Campaign | 11/2/1948 | See Source »

...these, Question 2, "The Good Roads Amendment," would prevent revenue from taxes on gasoline and auto registration from going to non-highway purposes. The Good Roads Committee, made up of 300 "non-political" organizations--including the Grange, the Boston Development Committee, and the Rural Letter Carriers--backs this permanent amendment. The Committee says that since 1929 more than $135,000,000, around a third of the tax intake, has been poured into projects "more politically expedient" than roads. The result has been, the group says, a deterioration of Commonwealth roads. The Committee also claims it is unfair...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: The Campaign | 11/2/1948 | See Source »

...sent a tall, sturdily built Russian in the uniform of a major in the MVD (secret police) to question the fugitives. Pirogov led off with the statement that he wasn't going back to Russia until there was a change in the regime. When the major kept referring to a "forced landing," Pirogov corrected him sharply: "There was no forced landing about it. I landed on U.S. territory because I intended to. This was an escape, not a forced landing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: I Is Russian Pilot | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...average pollee sounded not unlike the Pharisee who went into the temple to pray.* To the question-"If you yourself followed [Christ's rule of love] ALL THE WAY, what would you do differently-that is, how would it change your life?"-half answered that they would not change their present lives at all. Nearly two-thirds (62%) admitted that on thinking over the past 24 hours they could recall no time when they might have acted differently if they were explicitly following Christ's injunction: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." At the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Americans & God | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...most detailed question of the survey asked the individual if he really thought that he loved his neighbor in certain specific cases. The tabulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Americans & God | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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