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...Revision. Not for Franklin Roosevelt but for business, Congress drastically revised the unpopular levies on capital gains and undistributed corporate profits (TIME, June 6, et ante...
Published this week by FORTUNE are the full results of its extraordinary survey on the popularity of Franklin Roosevelt (TIME, Oct. 4, 1937, et ante). Using the same scientific sampling of the electorate which predicted the results of the 1936 election with an error of less than i%, FORTUNE presents a page of charts and statistics giving a balance sheet of Franklin Roosevelt's popularity-probably a more complete, objective picture of the basic political situation in the U. S. than has ever been drawn up. Its prime facts...
...Eire [TIME, Jan. 31 et seq.] instead of Ireland as the heading in the Foreign News Department? Or has the Emerald Isle been rechristened...
...first political office, thought that he had beaten Democrat Alphonse Roy for Congress in New Hampshire's ist District by 550 votes. Less happy were many succeeding days as the Jenks-Roy contest shuttled back and forth in a tantalizing series of recounts (TIME, Dec. 7. 1936. et seq.). One count came out 51,679-to-51,679, first tie in a Congressional race in no years. Another gave Contestee Roy an edge of 17 votes, which a third upped to 24. When Mr. Jenks claimed that 34 Jenks ballots cast in the town of Newton had been lost...
...most aggressive U. S. provincial patriots have been the Southern regionalists (Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, et al.). But in his five Maine-grounded historical novels (Arundel, The Lively Lady, Captain Caution, Rabble in Arms, Northwest Passage) Kenneth Roberts has gradually overtaken them. In Trending Into Maine he definitely shows the Southerners his heels...