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Stressing opposition to conveys and to an A. E. F., the strike committee co-chairman quoted in their own behalf the latest Gallup Poll, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, and the President himself...
...buzzing with talk of the necessity of making American aid effective. Until the final O.K. is given by the Chief Executive, however, the convey machinery, which stands ready to roll, cannot be set into motion. And with a flat 67 per cent of the nation opposed to the scheme (Gallup poll figures yesterday), the able politician in the White House doesn't dare to change his mind in public...
...indignation was reflected in a Gallup poll, which indicated that 72% of the public was sure that strikes in defense industries should be forbidden. Bills to curb strikes, unions, union activity were considered in Congress, in many a State legislature. The Oklahoma Senate, the Texas House, the Georgia Legislature had already voted such measures. New York's Senate passed one last week. Everywhere the conviction-sometimes the almost hysterical conviction-grew that something must be done. But what...
...days when Nurse Margaret Sanger languished in jail for "obscenity," or when her sister Ethel went on a hunger strike to attract public attention. Birth-control clinics are still illegal in only two States; contraceptives may now legally be sold in all but two.* According to a recent Gallup Poll, 77% of U. S. citizens favor dissemination of birth-control information through Government health clinics. Three States (North and South Carolina, Alabama) include contraception in their public health programs. With its 612 clinics doing a land-office business, the Federation, always hard-pressed for funds, is eager for other State...
...greater speed in reverse than ahead. R. H. Mansfield surveys "What's Going On" along Harvard's waterfront and reports that only five men out of the-thirty-seven Seniors in the N.R.O.T.C. are contemplating a civilian postgraduate career. Most interesting to landlubbers, though, is the Gallup poll which E. W. Garrison has made of the Harvard sailors. The local gobs prefer destroyers to battleships, ships to planes, and blondes or brunettes to redheads. More than half the men don't smoke, and only a few go through a pack per day. Freshmen and Seniors are ardent Wellesley fans, with...