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...Cautious A.F.L. Boss William Green gave the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters a straight-talking guide to Communist doubletalk. Sample: "They are willing to promise you the moon to convert you into tools and catspaws. . . . The Communists do not want to see the anti-poll tax bill and the fair employment bill adopted. By placing themselves in the forefront of these measures, they knew they were helping to defeat them...
...paragraph at the top of the ballot, which will appear in the registration envelopes of all returning members of '46, states: "Unlike past polls this one is primarily serious. Since the poll is completely anonymous, frank answers to frank questions are expected. However, if you think we have no business asking you certain questions, you have a perfect right to ignore them...
Some of the questions are of a personal nature, while others merely compile the formal statistics of the class. Included in the poll are questions concerning the student's career in the service or in other war occupations...
...section headed "Up From the Ape" the poll aims to determine whether the subject is a confirmed beer guzzler, a sipper only on social occasion, or among those who soak up hard "likker" by the quart in solitary confinement...
...poll of the Senior Album several years ago showed that the average scholar in the Class of 1940 had attended three Boston performances (including one midnight show...