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...women's platform committee had been replaced by 15 Los Angeles Negro leaders. They asked him questions on everything from the poll tax to better service for Negroes on Los Angeles streetcars. One expressed satisfaction later, quoting Willkie as saying: "I don't want to be tolerated; I want my rights." Another expressed pleasure over Willkie's advice to Negroes: "Don't get tied up to anybody; make them bid for you. Don't let them deal with the Southern Democrats and feed you spinach in Harlem at the same time...
...permanent military alliance with Britain, reports the Gallup Poll, is favored by a majority of both Republicans (57%) and Democrats...
...farm-committee poll concluded that the first postwar year would put $19,416,000 into the farmers' jeans, 165% above 1939 and only 4% below booming 1943. A banker's committee discovered that the 75% increase in Albert Lea's liquid assets in 1943 over 1941 was enough to pay outright for 55% of the new cars, homes...
...most extraordinary sign of America's temper today is that in a recent Gallup poll, 74% of the people voted for the idea of an "international police force." What the too pious hope of general disarmament was to the '20s, the more practically attractive picture of a world cop, hand on holster...
...Originally, Producer Shumlin had Lukas down for the Rumanian villain. Lukas' on-&-offstage persuasiveness subsequently won him 1) the New York Drama League's coveted Delia Austrian medal for 1941's most distinguished performance, 2) nine out of nine votes in Variety's critics' poll of the season's best acting. The National Fathers' Day Committee presented Lukas with a plaque (for the year's best portrayal of a stage father...