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...coastal peace patrol. Undenied was a story that his State, War & Navy Departments had whacked up a precautionary war budget of $20,000,000,000 for a single year, $2,000,000,000 of it for further increases in the military forces, when & if necessary. The Gallup index to his personal popularity leaped from 56.6% in August to 61%-only 1.5% short of his re-election majority in 1936. Finally, in the oval office where maps graphed the death of Poland, he received six Republicans, nine Democrats, but no confirmed isolationists, to confer on national unity for Peace...
...similar finding that there is a war-minded U. S. minority was obtained last week by a Gallup poll. Question: "If it looks within the next few months as if England and France might be defeated, should the United States declare war on Germany and send our troops abroad?" Answer...
...points for Great Britain and France. Makers of guns, bombs, shells, gas, powder, etc. could have done the same had they had shipments to make.* Franklin Roosevelt was pleased to let this state of affairs sink in on Congress and the U. S. people (82% of whom in a Gallup poll blamed Hitler for the war). He then obeyed Congress, recognized that war prevailed, embargoed exports of arms, munitions and materials of war to belligerents in conformity with the Neutrality Act of 1937. U. S. citizens had a view of statutory Neutrality in action...
...average) Grover Whalen will have about 24,000,000 admissions by the Fair's close next October 30-a little better than one-third his prediction. With luck, attendance might increase in the cooler autumn months, total 32,000,000 at season's end. Last March a Gallup poll said 13,000,000 people planned to attend the Fair, 19,000,000 hoped they could. Last week another poll showed that: 1) two-thirds of the planners had made 2.3 visits apiece to the Fair; 2) the remaining third were going this fall; 3) the hopers were still...
...nationwide Gallup poll showed that, since June, Paul V. McNutt had climbed from a tie for fifth into second place among Democratic choices for the Presidency (ex Franklin Roosevelt). The standings: Garner 46%, McNutt 13%, Hull and Farley 12%, Hopkins and Murphy...