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Everybody knew where Rankin stood, which was four-square against a federal ballot for soldiers, eight-square against the Administration, and, of course, 16-square in favor of the poll-tax, white supremacy, and Southern womanhood. John Rankin, master old-fashioned orator, counted on his corn to hold the House's attention. He was not wrong...
...separate poll of Jewish listeners in Arab-heavy Palestine disclosed that 46% of them tune in regularly to the three daily newscasts of the Palestine Broadcasting Service. Jews prefer news and news commentaries, music and Bible reading, in that order. About half of them also like the Children's Hour, which is designed for children six to twelve years...
Somewhere in the Southwest Pacific a poll-minded Army officer whiled away his free hours making a public-opinion survey among U.S. troops. He used the interview method, took plenty of time, quizzed more than 700 enlisted men: soldiers, sailors and marines; whites and Negroes. His results...
...major party on the Canadian political scene is the socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation which, according to the latest Gallup poll (Dec. 4, 1943), would divide the popular vote with the old-line parties (Liberals, 31%; Progressive Conservatives, 29%; C.C.F., 26%), might even ride into power...
...spite of the pronouncements of Socialist Leader Coldwell and his Rightist opposite numbers, the question of membership in the Pan American Union was still largely academic to most Canadians. A Gallup poll last week showed that of the few who had heard of the Pan American Union, 84% favored the Dominion joining it. Seventy-two per cent had never heard...