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When Turner began to appear in this gaudy get-up before he had made any real name for himself as a speed flyer, Cy Caldwell wrote prophetically in Aero Digest: "A pilot with nerve enough to wear that uniform and kick a half-grown lion in the pants is bound to come in first eventually." And last year Roscoe Turner began "coming in first" until today he is the outstanding speed pilot of the U. S. His rivals sneer at his clothes, at his brash statements that he is "a bit of a hero to the boys of the country...
...Cambridge. The conservatism which has always marked student opinion here provided a Hoover landslide in 1932 when the country was ridding itself of the laissez-faire complex. Last winter, however, reactionaries dashed for cover as the high purposes of Mr. Roosevelt' and his program struck home. The CRIMSON-Literary Digest poll is testimony to the change...
...other part of the ballot contains the question "Do you feel that the policies of the Roosevelt Administration offer a satisfactory method of recovery?" The poll on this query is being run for the purpose of determining whether the University's sentiments have changed since the CRIMSON-Literary Digest poll last spring. In the latter, Harvard expressed its approval of President Roosevelt's aims by a vote of 1,011 to 1,024. Whether or not the summer's industrial unrest has caused a reversal of this opinion is one of the main facts sought by the new check...
...surprising thing, after considering the enormous vote getting resources available to the New Dealers is that Mr. Roosevelt and his policies did not fare better than they did in the last Literary Digest poll. It begins to look as if the ability of Mr. Roosevelt as a politician has been overrated, if we consider the enormous number of people in the country who are sure to vote for him, for no other reason than because they are on Mr. Roosevelt's relief lists. Perhaps Mr. Roosevelt is not a great politician but only a great evader of questions and issues...
This fall the Literary Digest has conducted a second and smaller vote to see if the summer's industrial unrest has changed public opinion. According to this follow-up poll, which has not been attempted in any of the colleges, the nation as a whole still supports President Roosevelt, but by a much smaller margin than formerly...