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...check this we made a poll on "What was your most interesting experience on leave?" with this result...
Last week, as FCC still mulled over the plan, the New York Times attacked it: "The pig whistle injects a poll tax on radio - the payment of a fee in order that the public might enjoy what is already free and their property - the air. This is hardly a liberal conception of the 'freedom to listen.' " This could open "the doors to a whole series of exclusive squeals, each representing a different fee to the listener...
...open back seat of a Packard touring car, Candidate Roosevelt set out, bundled to his white-stubbled chin in a beaver-collared overcoat, his old brown campaign fedora scrunched on his balding poll. Beside him sat Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, shivering in a lightweight topcoat, his nose and chin blue with cold. The sky was lead-colored, the wind sharp. Franklin Roosevelt coughed occasionally and his eyes watered behind his pince-nez. But at Poughkeepsie, Wappingers Falls, Kingston and Newburgh, he waved his arm, grinned, bobbed his head vigorously, spoke cheerfully to the street crowds...
...Crossley poll included an estimate of the soldier vote, its prediction: Roosevelt, 52.2%; Dewey...
...Gallup poll, after hanging squarely on the fence for days, made no final prediction, but totted up its election-eve total: Roosevelt, 51.5%; Dewey, 48.5%. In electoral votes, Gallup gave F.D.R. 18 sure states with 165 votes, Dewey ten sure states with 85 votes; and left 20 states with 281 votes in the balance...