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Nationwide public-opinion polls (the Gallup poll, FORTUNE Survey, etc.) are plentiful. But until last week there has never been a poll limited by state boundaries. Then the Des Moines Register and Tribune started one, on the eve of a Presidential election year. Said the Register and Tribune's Publisher Gardner Cowles Jr.: "The Iowa Poll" will measure lowans' views on local issues as well as on questions of national importance...
...rush of recruits from the bored, the adventure-loving, the extraordinarily patriotic and the economically depressed. Among the rest, the majority, no kind of publicity ever got beyond first base. Women, who hate regimentation, refused to be persuaded of the country's need of them. Significant was a Gallup report on the best publicity approach: "self-interest by inference...
...Death? For Torture? Herbert Claiborne Pell, U.S. delegate on the Commission, says frankly that he is in favor of being tough. Gallup polices in Britain recently voted: 40% to shoot Axis big shots outright; 18% for trial; 15% for torture; 11% for imprisonment or exile; the rest for miscellaneous solutions, including one Briton in a hundred who would just let them...
...days the Senate gingerly held on to the dynamite-charged "soldier vote" bill. Many a Congressman sat down in a quiet corner and figured it all out on his thumbs. A Gallup poll last week said it simply: ten million soldier votes could certainly decide the 1944 Presidential elections-and very probably in favor of the New Deal...
...Good Politics? In spite of the most careful Gallup polls or the sharpest Senatorial calculations, no man could say for certain how a majority of U.S. soldiers would vote next year. No Senator was any too happy at the thought of ten million decisive, unpredictable votes swamping the ballot boxes in 1944. A coalition of GOPsters and conservative Democrats did the heavy work in killing the Lucas-Green bill. But the soldier who goes with out a vote cannot put the full blame on the old anti-New Deal coalition. With clear-eyed candor, New Mexico's suave Dennis...