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...cloture rule is rejected, of course I myself will not only make no further effort to press the [anti-poll tax] bill but will feel myself in honor bound...
Every Senator knew it was more than surrender; this was the finely chiseled epitaph of a bill to end the poll tax as a means of disfranchising millions of Negroes and poor whites in eight Southern poll-tax States...
...these, five were line men: Ramsay and Franks at guard, Wistert at tackle, Kelleher at end, and Moseley at center. Margarita and Kuzma were picked for backfield positions. The votes of various sports editors for All-American players coincided pretty closely with those of a readers poll conducted by "The Football News". a national sports magazine...
Chunky Senator Bilbo and the Southern bloc, who did not have enough Senate votes to beat the bill outlawing poll taxes, intended to talk it to death instead. Senators yawned, read newspapers, shuffled papers, wandered off the floor...
This week the Gallup poll came up with two fearful statistics: though in four months more U.S. adults than ever before will be liable for some form of Federal income tax, 77% of them do not know today how much they will have to pay, or think they will owe nothing. Moreover, 75% of them (in the lower brackets, 85%) have not started saving ahead for their taxes...