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...because he was born at Taunton, Mass., 50 years ago. Last year he languished six months in a New York City jail for leading a Red demonstration at Union Square against police orders. He emerged just in time to run for Governor of New York on the Communist ticket, poll 18,034 votes. Last month he was ejected from Moundsville, W. Va. for trying to address striking miners. In last week's disturbances he controlled his temper, did not get himself into the headlines by vigorously championing the National Miners Union side...
Life undertook to prove its point by sending ballot cards to 5,110 golf clubs, and printing a ballot blank in the magazine. Strictly, Life's poll will not be a true pro-&-con measure of opinion because the form of ballot blank is worded to attract only the objectors. But as a petition of protest, Life is confident that an overwhelming aversion to the new ball will be registered by "the 90% who never break...
...Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America last month, so last week did the Special Commission on Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. report its approval of Birth Control. To incorporate this approval in the Confession of Faith would require polling the 295 U. S. Presbyteries. The Special Commission urges the Church's General Assembly, which meets this month in Pittsburgh, to have a committee consider the wisdom of taking such a poll next year. Of the two methods of Birth Control- continence and contraception-the second was approved...
Iron Man (Universal). Lewis ("Lew") Ayres, recently voted "King of the Movies" in a poll conducted by the newspaper with the largest circulation in the U. S.,? is hopelessly miscast as a light-heavyweight fighter in a fumbled version of W. R. Burnett's novel. The novel is one of the few accurate pieces ever written about the prize ring but it has been adapted in a way that takes the life out of its characterizations, its swift exciting action. Ignoring the actual scenes of ring battles constructed by Author Burnett with so much realism, Director Tod Browning...
Consolidating the personal opposition to present-day Prohibition among the 200 men polled, and stepping its ratio up to the full membership of Congress (531), it is found that, politics aside, 369 members would favor a Change as opposed to 162 standpat Drys. But the same method of calculation shows that Modification in a real test would poll less than 225 votes. Therefore among the 369 privately for a Change there are more than 150 Senators and Representatives who vote Dry and think, if not drink...