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...hand in glove with the Secret Police of Adolf Hitler across the border. Up to a few months ago Saar Catholics, offended by Nazi attempts to bring their church to heel in Germany, were expected to influence the plebiscite strongly, but by last week the poll seemed so likely to favor Germany that a frantic rush had begun by Saar citizens to climb on the Nazi bandwagon...
...Legislature repealed the State's $1 poll tax. That meant that the poorest white man in the State was free to vote the straight Long ticket...
...Only State not carried by Roosevelt in the poll: Vermont with 53% anti-New Deal...
Significant politically was the fact that the chief falling off in the Roosevelt vote was in the Solid South. There the New Deal may lose heavily without bettering the chances of Republicans to get elected. Nonetheless Republicans took hope by declaring that the poll's question was so worded as to test the President's personal popularity rather than the political strength of his policies. G. O. Partisans made much of a local by-election for the New York State Senate last week in the President's home district, which he represented in 1910-13 but failed to carry...
This week, after eight solid years of work, Amos and Andy will go off the air after their 1,892nd broadcast. Messrs. Gosden & Correll, less popular than heretofore, have fallen from first to fourth place in the last poll,* but they still get 5,000 letters a month. Last year besides their $200,000 from Pepsodent they made $100,000 from theatrical engagements. Both married before Amos and Andy were created. Gosden has become the father of two children since the first broadcast six years ago. They live in neighboring apartments in Chicago. This summer Gosden, a native of Richmond...