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...biggest noise in an empty barrel for the year," said Clifton Fadiman in the New Yorker. "He is to me like God," wrote an awestruck Freshman in the Confidential Guide poll last spring. "The world's foremost sociologist," was the opinion of a professor in a midwestern university. In panning Sorokin's book on "Social and Cultural Dynamics," Fadiman referred to Harvard's Department of Sociology as a "White Russian WPA." But Professor Sorokin, who is head of that WPA, began his career by being just as red as the rest of his intellectual, revolutionary friends. Back...
Stressing opposition to conveys and to an A. E. F., the strike committee co-chairman quoted in their own behalf the latest Gallup Poll, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, and the President himself...
...with talk of the necessity of making American aid effective. Until the final O.K. is given by the Chief Executive, however, the convey machinery, which stands ready to roll, cannot be set into motion. And with a flat 67 per cent of the nation opposed to the scheme (Gallup poll figures yesterday), the able politician in the White House doesn't dare to change his mind in public...
Greatly encouraged by the enthusiastic response of the recent Yardling poll to a program of inter-hall competition in indoor sports, the Freshman committee of Phillips Brooks House will take its first step toward organization of a ping pong tournament next Thursday...
...indignation was reflected in a Gallup poll, which indicated that 72% of the public was sure that strikes in defense industries should be forbidden. Bills to curb strikes, unions, union activity were considered in Congress, in many a State legislature. The Oklahoma Senate, the Texas House, the Georgia Legislature had already voted such measures. New York's Senate passed one last week. Everywhere the conviction-sometimes the almost hysterical conviction-grew that something must be done. But what...