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...addition to finding the student's relations with the aRmy and Navy, the poll also will discover his physical, financial and academic positon, and his plans for the near future...
Marna Angell's, "Agenda for Victory" falls far below the publication's usual calibre. She assumes that repeal of the poll tax will "assure" more progressive Congressmen from the South, and that labor-management committees will endure unchallenged after the war. Similar unsupported statements scattered through her essay rob it of any real value...
...dogs in the Senate now were acid-tongued, bombastic Tom Connally of Texas, floor manager of the poll-tax State foray; Mississippi's Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo, who once proposed deportation of Negroes to Liberia; Tennessee's bumbling Kenneth McKellar, still chafing from his arrest for dodging Senate attendance (TIME, Nov. 23); and owlish Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming, only Democratic Senator from a non-poll-tax State to take the floor against constitutionality of the bill. O'Mahoney said he had no love for poll taxes, but their abolition...
...States requiring payment of a poll tax as prerequisite to voting are Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia...
Congress, with its obstructionist tactics, is shamefully delaying the only important piece of war legislation brought before it during the last few months. Pre-election jitters are excusable: post-election oats-feeling can hamstring the whole wartime program. The Poll Tax fizzle and the War Powers fiasco leave Congress with two strikes against it. In most leagues a count like that puts the batter on the spot...