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Because Lonnie E. Smith is a Negro, election judges in Houston, Tex. barred him from the polls in a 1940 Democratic primary. Lonnie Smith saw his lawyers. This week the Supreme Court of the U.S. decided (8-to-1) that Texas must not bar Negroes from voting in primaries because of race. This had meaning for all Southern states-although poll taxes and "educational requirements" will still keep many a Negro from voting...
...time since the city was laid out, Washingtonians were united against the common foe. "Disunity!" screamed the D.C. Communist Party. The Southeast Council of Churches considered charges that Mayor Bilbo is "unpatriotic and un-Christian," solemnly resolved that he be removed. "Vicious," said the National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax, "un-American." The sober Washington Post editorialized: "Bilbo Runs Amok." The Scripps-Howard Daily News fumed: "This socially benighted man . . . throw...
...President Roosevelt's majority is slipping fast, according to a new Des Moines Register poll. How Iowans would vote: Roosevelt, 45%; "best Republican," 43%; undecided, 12%. Two months ago 51% favored F.D.R. when asked the same question...
...side: Iowans' choices for "best Republican": Willkie (who visited the state during balloting), 34%; Dewey, 30%. In the previous poll Dewey led Willkie...
...crew of 450 pollsters moved into the three Henry J. Kaiser-operated shipyards in the Portland (Ore.) area. In seven days, they sieved 81,881 workers through a series of questions designed to peg down their postwar plans, the first such big worker-by-worker poll in the U.S. Last week, Shipbuilder Kaiser, who footed the bill, the Portland Chamber of Commerce and the Maritime Commission, which helped poll, announced the statistical shocker: other than present employment, 86% of the workers have no postwar job in sight...