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...field. Said he: "I figured if the advertisers wanted to spend money for the teen-age market, they should know what the kids want." For his key workers he appointed the "Joe Guns" (most popular students) of Chicago high schools as "research supervisors," gave them 75? an hour to poll students. He now has a staff of 350 adolescent aides and a pert, blonde fashion director, 18-year-old Shirley Rappelt...
...Assurance of Senate ratification of the new world charter (see below). ¶An informal vote of confidence from the U.S. public: the Gallup poll reported that 87% of U.S. citizens approve the way he has handled his job. (President Roosevelt's wartime high: 84%, right after Pearl Harbor.) ¶An important Cabinet shift...
There would still be debate. Senators Connally and Vandenberg, fresh from San Francisco, would open it this week with speeches in defense of the charter. There would be criticism and strictures. But an Associated Press poll of 75 Senators found none definitely against...
...thing sure to arouse a Southern Congressman, besides affronted Southern womanhood, is the perennial anti-poll tax bill. Last week Southern Congressmen were thus aroused. They spoke their usual bitter words, went down to their usual defeat when House Republicans joined with Northern Democrats and passed the measure...
...Southerners had nothing to worry about. Twice before the House had passed the anti-poll tax bill, twice before the Senate had killed it. The Senate would now do it again, if necessary by filibuster. And every Congressman knew...