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...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...
...Sixteen million of the 30 million nonvoters lived south of the Mason-Dixon Line-18% of them whites who could afford to pay the poll...
...last preconvention Gallup poll among Republicans, Dewey's strength fell 7%, Bricker's went up 3%, in the past month. But Dewey still had an overwhelming...
...right to vote in Atlanta while seeking his vote . . . in Harlem." But they have made economic gains under the New Deal; "they will not leave that party for vague assurances of future action expressed in pious platitudes. The Republican Party . . . should commit itself unequivocally and specifically to federal anti-poll tax and anti-lynching statutes...
More likely, political observers concluded, the South is merely hypersensitive to Washington "interference" in Southern affairs, has decided to hit back. Even Dixie's most ardent New Dealers are tired of Yankee advice on the Negro problem, the poll tax and States' rights. Southern delegates will go to the Democratic convention in Chicago next month with a list of minimum demands: i) less Washington meddling below the Mason-Dixon line; 2) a Southern Vice President-or any Vice President but Henry Wallace; 3) a re-turn to the two-thirds rule, under which Southerners for many decades exercised...