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...news from Ohio was that able,independent Democratic Governor Frank J. Lausche, a terrific vote-getter in 1944, might not be re-elected this year. Democrats shuddered over a poll in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland). It indicated that Governor Lausche, a native Clevelander, would win it by no more than 64,000. In 1944 he had taken it by a record 192,000 to ride out the Republican swell that carried the state for Dewey & Bricker. If Lauschecould be beaten, the Democrats were in bad shape indeed...
...bosses," from Rhodes to Smuts. First a hut tax was imposed which forced the impecunious natives to earn white man's money. Later came a head tax of 20 shillings a year. Squads of police cruised nightly through urban "locations" (segregated residential quarters), routing all Negroes without poll-tax receipts. The penalty: jail, cuts with a thin bamboo cane-or a job in the mines. By 1938 the rural Europeans, who form 10% of the population, held 88% of the land. All adult male natives must carry passes-some of them as many as ten passes at a time...
...Last spring, in a nationwide poll of collegians by Billboard magazine, be placed third to Stan Kenton and Tex Beneke among best "new" orchestras...
This long-suspected fact is now in the process of being proved, with good, round statistics, by the Gallup-poll organization called Audience Research, Inc. After buttonholing a cross section of box-office customers at one current big-budget movie (title not announced), the pollsters tentatively concluded...
...prod for the many procrastinating Seniors who wait until their last few weeks at the College before recognizing the problem of finding a vocation or finding a wedge into their chosen field, next week the year-old Office of Student Placement will poll the 928 students scheduled to graduate in February and June...