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...meeting also included an appeal by an officer of the American Civil Liberties Union for the support of the anti-poll tax measure throughout the State of Massachusetts...
...Lucas-Green bill was actually an amendment to the original Soldier Voting Law of 1942, an unworkable measure which, by giving all individuals in the Armed Services the right to vote, specifically abolished poll-tax restrictions...
...State legislatures, egged on by an aroused nation to take action-any action -met in haste. Georgia and West Virginia speedily passed soldier vote measures. The legislatures of Connecticut, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin called special January sessions. Arkansas nervously dusted off a 1923 law abolishing the poll tax for soldiers. New Jersey's Governor Charles Edison stepped forward with a scheme for mailing postcards to servicemen overseas...
Insatiably curious Dr. Gallup took a poll of Bible readers, last week announced that they are increasing in numbers, and that the biggest increase is among young readers...
...York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey, leader in national GOPresidential polls since November 1942, got another bouquet. The Republican, official G.O.P. magazine, queried 3,500 State and county G.O.P. committeemen: "In general, do you agree with this leader's stand on foreign affairs?" From these professionals, Tom Dewey got the highest percentage of affirmative votes (48.3%), followed by Herbert Hoover (47.7%) and Wendell Willkie (41.4%). More than anything, the poll showed that G.O.P. committeemen considered men rather than issues. Almost all GOPresidential possibilities stand for some form of world organization; the practical committeemen voted most heavily...