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...home national defense was out of gear: priorities were in a jumble; however willing most of industry might be, defense production was far short of its urgent requirements; however patriotic most of labor might be, defense strikes still tied up production. A FORTUNE poll showed an overwhelming majority of the people in favor of legally forbidding strikes in defense industries (72.2% against jurisdictional strikes, 68.7% against strikes for a closed shop, 66.5% against strikes for shorter hours, 58.4% against strikes for better working conditions), but neither labor nor industry had yet translated such feelings into results...
...Congress the fight over the Neutrality Act, which keeps U.S. ships from exercising freedom of the seas, was already coming to a head. A poll of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee showed that 13 favored repeal, ten were opposed-the same division as in the vote on the Tobey convoy resolution, which would reassert Freedom of the Seas by force. (In one month's time, the Gallup Poll reported, sentiment in favor of convoys jumped from...
...main deficiency, the poll showed, is the lack of experienced tutors. Most of the supervisors are graduate students, leading men in their fields. Yet the very best of these graduate students have already been hired by the University to act as instructors in the basic courses. Although in every case the supervisors are recommended by their Department to the Bureau, they usually have never done any previous teaching...
...case, a student received tutoring from a graduate who was enrolled in the same course, and in his own words, "I knew more about it than he did." Some men, in answering the poll, wrote that the supervisor assigned to them had not the faintest idea of the arrangement of the course, or even of the material it covered...
...Bureau of Supervisors already has several men who received very high ratings in the poll, Duhig, long experienced in History I, and Perry, supervisor in English, both were regarded as excellent. Mrs. Bradley, tutor in Economics, was mentioned by many as very good. Several others merited favorable comments. But in other cases, reports were rather unsatisfactory...