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Same day, Motion Picture Herald, having completed its annual poll of exhibitors, revealed that the No. i box-office star of the year was Bing Crosby, phenomenally popular in Going...
There had been, said the House Campaign Expenditures Committee, "numerous reports that the Gallup poll might have been used to try to influence the outcome of the elections." Last week in Washington, appearing before the committee at his own request, big, grave Dr. George H. Gallup set out to answer them. He admitted that early in the campaign he had adjusted his prediction of the Presidential returns in a way that seemed to favor Tom Dewey, deducting 2% from the Roosevelt plurality actually indicated by the polls. His explanation: he had expected a light vote, which would presumably have benefited...
...G.I.s carry out their present plans, there will be at least half a million new small businesses in the U.S. after the war. So said the Army last week, after a poll of U.S. troops. There are another 300,000 soldiers who plan to buy farms...
...meeting was called by the Committee of Editors and Writers of the South in anticipation of Congress' reviving the anti-poll tax bill. The conferees-eight of the 51 were Negroes-were against the poll tax, deprecated other Southern devices for depriving the Negro of his Constitutional right to vote. The editors and writers mingled affably and called each other "Mr." with an ease that surprised both races...
...Author Harnett Kane of New Orleans told of Louisiana elections held in white bars or bordellos, which no Negro dared enter. He recalled Huey Long's remark after the Legislature repealed Louisiana's poll tax in 1934: "The white primary will take care of the nigger...