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...people were not responsible for this postponement. A recent Gallup poll reported that 54% of the people favor a 2% sales tax now. Neither was Congress responsible. Most Congressmen recognized that the argument against a sales tax in peacetime-that it restricts the living standards of the masses-is the strong argument...
...thirds of the nation could walk to work if all automobiles, busses, trolleys, subways and trains stopped running, reported the Gallup poll. The rest of the country would average a four-mile trip each way (excluding farmers...
Smith's pals include potent realtors and contractors in mushrooming Alexandria, Fairfax, Arlington, the jammed suburbs hard by jampacked Washington. Out of the 250,000-odd population of Smith's district, the trouble and expense of paying $1.50 to $6 in poll taxes keep all but a faithful handful of heelers from voting. (Smith represents the Eighth District, home of Washington, Jefferson, Madison...
Fortnight ago the District Democratic committee decided that enough poll-tax payers (250 required) had signed a petition for the Aug. 4 primary to permit the candidacy of grey-haired, bespectacled Emmett C. Davison, 64, secretary-treasurer of A.F. of L.'s International Association of Machinists, onetime mayor of Alexandria, member of the northern Virginia draft-appeals board. In 1936 Davison was tried, acquitted on a charge of concealing assets in personal bankruptcy proceedings. He ran again for mayor of Alexandria, to vindicate himself, was badly beaten...
...Poll announces the astounding fact that the intellectual center of the United States has moved from Boston to a point near Cleveland. This is indicated by the geographical breakdown of the Dean's List, which shows that three-fourths of the students west of the Alleghenies had a B average. And these areas showed large percentages from supposedly inferior public high schools...