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Fortunately for national stability, the U.S. Constitution cannot be amended by a Gallup poll. But if it could be, possibly the most urgent constitutional issue now facing the U.S. would have been settled last week. The issue: the abolition of the famed "two-thirds rule" which kept the U.S. out of the League of Nations-the rule by which a Senate minority (one-third plus one of the members) can prevent ratification of a treaty. Gallup pollsters found 60% of citizens in favor of allowing treaties to be ratified by a simple majority of both House and Senate. Only...
Solemnly stepping through their paces, the Senators first received the House-passed Marcantonio bill, which would outlaw the poll tax in eight Southern states. On cue, bombastic old Tom Connally rose up to shake his grey-white mane and speak his piece about States' rights. "Because my own State of Texas does not conduct its affairs as the State of New York thinks it should conduct them," he declaimed, "these crusaders, these Sir Galahads, mount their steeds and come down into Texas to modify us, and to Christianize us, and to liberalize us, and to modernize...
...terms of the deal, Southerners would be allowed to protest at length and get themselves on record as favoring the poll tax and "white supremacy." Republicans and Northern Democrats, prodded by church, liberal, labor and Negro organizations, would pass around a petition to impose cloture and force a vote. When cloture failed-as it did this week by a vote of 4440-36-the bill would be quietly shelved, at least until after...
Frances Perkins won the booby prize in a poll conducted by Look. Fifty-two newspaper correspondents picked the ten most and ten least useful officials in Washington, gave Madam Secretary the top spot on the "least useful" list. On the positive side they chose: General George C. Marshall (on the lists of 44 correspondents); Cordell Hull (on 33); Franklin Roosevelt (on only 32, but leading more lists - 24 - than anyone else...
Last week Dr. George Gallup also released a poll completed after the Wisconsin primary, showed Roosevelt leading Dewey by 55%-to-45% after eliminating "about one in ten" who were undecided. In this question voters were asked to assume that the war would still be on. But when Gallup asked voters whom they would vote for if the war were over by election time, Dewey led Roosevelt by a wide margin: 58%-to-42%, after eliminating the undecided. FORTUNE'S most closely comparable question shows a near-standoff: 44% for Roosevelt, 43.5% for the "best Republican." But FORTUNE...