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Only a minority of Senators want to keep the poll tax. But the Senate steadfastly declines, except on rarest occasions, to gag a single one of its members. This has been a characteristic of gentlemen's debating societies ever since the Roman Senate, bored with the obstructionist tactics of Cato the Younger, nonetheless allowed him to filibuster on. Last week Tom Connally explained this ancient paradox in down-to-earth terms: "Those who today may advocate the imposition of cloture . . . may tomorrow be the victims of it. ... It has been suggested that Dr. Guillotine, who invented the guillotine...
Eleanor Roosevelt's peregrinations have worried so many people so long that the Gallup poll finally caught up with them. Vox populi: too much peregrinating, 45%; okay, 36%; no opinion, 6%; none of their business...
...mortal blow to the hopes of anti-Rooseveltians within the Democratic Party had been dealt by the primary triumphs of New Dealing Senators Claude Pepper and Lister Hill (TIME, May 15). More than ever the President looked like his Party's one & only hope in 1944. A Gallup poll indicated that 50% of those who plan to vote for him will vote for a Republican if Roosevelt does...
...refineries and shipyards of Beaumont, Port Arthur and Orange in Dies's war-booming Second District. The C.I.O. Political Action Committee, privately taking credit for the defeat of the No. 2 Dies Committeeman, Joe Starnes, in Alabama a fortnight ago, was getting its Second District workers' poll taxes paid...
...baseball's gaggiest managers could find little to gag about last week. On the very day he placed as the third most playful pilot on a baseball writers' poll, Charlie Grimm watched his Chicago Cubs take their 13th consecutive licking. It tied the worst early-season losing streak in the majors, set by the Washington Senators...