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Like a reluctant avalanche Franklin Roosevelt's Administration began to move. The public had shouted for action but its shouts had had no more effect than firecrackers in moving a mountainside. The President's popularity, measured by the Gallup poll, had sunk from 84% after Pearl Harbor, to 78% a month ago, to 70% last week...
...boycott against recordings. On hand to push the Government's case will be Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold. So far Trust-Buster Arnold has had no great success in his brushes with organized labor. But this time he has popular opinion behind him. A Gallup Poll question, "Do you approve or disapprove of the Government taking legal action to stop Petrillo?" turned up a 73% chorus of ayes...
...Providence, R.I. Journal ran advertisements in five key-city Midwest newspapers, sent reprints to some 500 editors of other papers. The purpose: explain the East's plight, poll Midwest sentiment on rationing of gasoline and fuel oils. Responding by the hundreds, Midwesterners affirmed they were willing to accept rationing-when the reason for it is understood...
...Gallup Poll is fairly accurate. If the majority of the people want a sales tax, if Congress admits it is a necessary step, then it is up to the President and Congress to put the measure through regardless of elections...
...national clamor [Gallup poll: 49%] for a united high command of the Army & Navy, had been answered by the Presidential appointment of a "generalissimo" whose job Mr. Roosevelt now defined as that of a mere "legman...