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...help 500,000-odd small-time farmers produce much-needed foodstuffs. But the Farm Bureau and their Congressmen hate FSA with a real and poisonous hatred; FSA helps impoverished Negroes and whites to own their own 40 acres and a mule, to gain independence, to pay their poll taxes, to assert their rights as individuals...
...Poll-Tax State. Liberals rushed to his defense. Among them was John F. Finerty, prominent corporation lawyer and civil-libertarian. Suave, greying, publicity-shy Mr. Finerty had fought in other causes: notably for Sacco & Vanzetti, Tom Mooney...
Finerty maintained that Waller had not been tried by a jury of his peers, argued that destitute "second-class citizens" like Waller were barred from serving on Virginia juries, because they could not afford to pay Virginia's $1.50 a year (cumulative) poll tax. Juries were generally picked from poll-taxpayers' lists. But though he had made the point, Waller's young trial lawyer had not introduced , proof of it into the record. Because of that oversight, Finerty's appeals for a new trial were denied by one court after another...
...issue of the 1936 and 1940 political campaigns was the Republican assertion that they could run the Government more efficiently than the Democrats. Last week a Gallup poll stated that although some voters (21%) felt that Republicans could do more to speed the war effort, more (31%) thought it would go ahead faster if the G.O.P. had even less power...
...joins with Britain in a second front in Europe this summer, it will do so with the backing of the U.S. people. A Gallup poll this week showed that the country, by a 2-to-1 margin, still regards Germany as the chief enemy...