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...vote in Mississippi, a citizen must have paid his poll taxes for two years preceding the election. The poll tax is a $2 flat rate, but since municipal poll taxes may be added to the basic rate, the maximum rate is $6. Mississippi's 1940 population: 2,183,796 persons. In 1940 only 175,824 Mississippians voted. Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo's total vote in 1940: 143,341. He was elected by about one-fifteenth of the State's population, presumably including Reader Levings...
White-thatched, idealistic Sir William Henry Beveridge* is one of those Englishmen who believe that post-war reconstruction must go hand in hand with basic social reforms. This belief, voiced in many public utterances, he bases on a lifetime spent in the study of economics and years of experience with social problems. Contemptuous of crackpot Utopias, he backs his statements up with figures, for which he has an abiding passion...
...explored the upper atmosphere by recording instruments sent up in balloons. He proposed repeating the ascensions at the equator to find out whether the mesotrons are formed merely by the explosion of the original proton or are formed from earthly atoms by collision. This would throw light on the basic question: what does it take to break up a proton-i.e., how much energy is needed to smash an atom...
...case for raising the much-hooted men in the striped shirts up toward the rafters is very convincing, and Brown has only limited objections, mostly of a technical nature. There must be some basic reason, he agrees, why the whistle tooters are a winter-long source of irritation to spectators, coaches, players, and sports writers (and that taken in just about everybody...
...basic reason beyond the immediate improvements which would follow the move, members state that to deny women equal education is reactionary and that coeducation is superior as a general policy...