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When he finished, there was not a single question. The pressure went down, visibly. The Gallup poll found that most people were satisfied with the rate of discharge. But before long, Congressmen expected the heat would be on again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Send Them Home | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

...Richardson listed her complaints: 1) the poll tax ("a breeder of dirty politicians"); 2) the schools ("my oldest son enters the fourth grade soon . . . in three years he has had very little actual knowledge offered him. [He] can barely write"); 3) the city employes ("what a sorry lot . . . barely a day goes by but what some policeman or two run down some poor defenseless Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: The Boss Forgives | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...added: "I hear said, 'But look what Crump has done for us. All the nice parks.' Other cities and states have parks without the help of Crump and the poll tax. Other states have fine schools where a splendid education is offered without a politician being mentioned. . . . Missouri rid itself of Pendergast. Why can't the same thing be done here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: The Boss Forgives | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...daresay that if a poll were to be taken of Dartmouth Jewish alumni, they would back President Hopkins and the college almost to a man. . . . Dartmouth is a private school and the men of Dartmouth don't need much outside help to tell us how we want our college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: The Atomic Bomb | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

These are the questions Williams College students are being asked this week in a poll conducted by the Williams Record. The Record claims that many of the essential features of both plans are already in operation at Williams, thinks Yale's summer reading course will be the most controversial issue in its poll...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Williams Record Runs Poll On Harvard, Yale Proposals | 8/30/1945 | See Source »

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