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...college-student and faculty members, were in the midst of a campaign to form Federal Union groups in labor unions. Outside such organized groups, Federal Union had "adherents" whose number nobody could estimate - people who had not contributed money but who read its literature, spread its faith. A Gallup poll last week estimated that 8,000,000 U. S. citizens, thinking of the post-war world, believe in an international federation of some such kind as Federal Union advocates. In its busy na tional and regional offices Federal Union ists were confident that they were at last solidly organized...
...compulsory 21-meal rate was voted on in a Student Council poll last year and about 51% of the students polled declared themselves in favor of it. It also would mean reductions of about a dollar a week on the $10 rate. It would mean the abolition of the 14 meal rate and the 10 meal rate...
...carry much weight. Whether the students would be willing to serve themselves for only a slight saving per week lies in the realms of speculation. Such a plan would destroy much of the social aspect of the House life. Of invaluable aid in solving the problem would be a poll of student opinion. The proposal should not be adopted unless there is overwhelming desire for it and unless no other more effective method of economizing can be discovered...
...around for some time now, with a lot of bands you hear uptown, like Claude Hopkins and Billy Hioks. These days Hall is working with Red Allen's band down at Cafe Society, and you may or may not have noticed him. He never won anybody's Down Beat poll, and I can't recall his being photographed at Ciro's, lingering over a long drink with a Sweater Giri-Funny thing, though, the way he plays clarinet is enough to send Goodman and Shaw back to where they come from...
Other aspects of the conferences which take on wide significance are the problems of the National Youth Administration work aid that is being given to needy high school students. Last night, A. L. Knoblauch, a member of the Gallup Poll, spoke on the relation of public opinion to education...