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...analysis of remarks on the tutoring school questionnaires during the CRIMSON poll and a memorandum recently issued by the Dean's Office have revealed the student body's opinions of the cram parlors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutoring Notes "Incorrect," Hanford Says, Confirming Reports of Students | 1/16/1940 | See Source »

...mentioned "Honeysuckle" and a carbon copy of Rex Stewart's (trumpet) solo effort with Duke Ellington. Still another example of how Benny is forsaking nerve-racking power house for honest-to-goodness swing. "Memories of You" by the Sextet is equally good....Tommy Dorsey, having won the Downbeat Sweet poll, is beginning to play more good swing than he ever has before. "Easy Does It" is a worthy successor to the platter of "Stomp It Off" that Tommy did several months ago. An original by former Luncefordite Sy Oliver, it swings easily and tastefully....Jimmy Dorsey has always been...

Author: By Michael Levin, (SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CRIMSON.) | Title: SWING | 1/12/1940 | See Source »

...Many a U. S. Founding Father, more than somewhat suspicious of democracy,† took comfort in upholding the poll tax principle, which neatly eliminated the great unwashed from a voice in naming the people's choice. Time, and the growth of democratic ideas, ate away the poll tax bulwarks-in the U. S. eight States still make a citizen clink cash on the counter before casting a vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: 1940 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

Last week in Tennessee, which allows a person to pay the $1 poll tax for any member of his immediate family. Knoxville pastors and prominent citizens fancied up a new attack on the tax under a cynical, seasonal slogan: "Give a Poll Tax for Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: 1940 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...State tried to show that Maverick and his co-defendants conspired to spend Maverick money in 50? pieces to pay the $1.50 poll tax for an I. L. G. W. U. member so he could help elect him. (By Texas law, no one can vote without paying a poll tax.) Defense maintained that the money was spent legally for campaign purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Mavericks' Maury | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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