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Said one contributor, Editor Paul B. Williams of the Utica (N.Y.) Press, who took a personal poll in upstate New York: "Concerning relations between . . . the U.S. and states seeking to achieve economic and political independence, notably China and India, the replies were remarkably vague. The most illuminating answer came from a prosperous Welsh dairyman who said: 'Can we teach a man like Gandhi to wear britches...
...begun last November when the Senate was debating poll-tax repeal. Because a quorum was lacking, the Sergeant at Arms was ordered to arrest absent members, march them straight to the floor. A Jurney deputy captured Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar in a hotel room and made Senator McKellar feudin' mad. Last week the gentleman from Tennessee showed just how mad that...
...Republican in Philadelphia, a Democrat in Baltimore, because "I always join the worst party to work from within to clean it up." In the 1895 election, when roughs were intimidating citizens waiting to vote by poking them with shoemakers' awls, small, stocky Dr. Kelly volunteered as a poll watcher, punched a plug-ugly in the nose...
...Harvard Poll," which in addition to the traditional biographies, activities, and athletics sections, completes the annual, achieves a lightness of touch that more than refutes any charges of overseriousness, and gets its point across at the same time...
...second source of data may be the new Alumni Directory poll, covering men already in the armed forces. This poll, which will be used to put out the next issue of the Directory, should yield considerable additions to the list...