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...asked and Congress had voted enough for Rearmament; whether the President could do whatever had to be done without grants of further power; whether, without the restraining presence of Congress, the President could safely be left with the powers which he already had. And - although the latest Gallup poll showed that the President's foreign policy was still his greatest strength - a clamorous minority of the U. S. press doubted that the President could be trusted to keep the U. S. from going all the way into...
...subordinates to strip from the rolls all ablebodied, single men who are eligible for military service. His ungentle hint: the Army provides employment. Illinois's old, gentle Congressman Adolph Sabath, who has long opposed school military training, retreated so far as to favor conscription for collegians. A Gallup Poll published last week showed voters divided 50-50 on peacetime conscription; last October, they were 61% against it. Massachusetts' 38-year-old Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (an Army Reserve Captain) proposed to require six months' training for all able young men as they turn 18. The Army...
...handclasp, speechify, claim and counterclaim. Into North Carolina and West Virginia scurried Thomas E. Dewey; into Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama stumped Robert Taft. In Missouri and Nebraska, Wendell Willkie quietly gathered in delegates that his rivals had counted on as safe in their own bags. The newest Gallup poll showed him second in popularity among Republican voters, upped him from 10% to 17% in two weeks' time (Dewey lost 4%, but was still far in the lead with...
Willkie followers, mostly amateurs, went around breathing hard, with a hopeful gleam in their eyes. One thing that made them happy was a widespread feeling that the Dewey drive was slowing up. Here & there delegates openly avowed they would desert Dewey at the first chance. A Gallup Poll, which showed Dewey still far ahead in popular favor (56%). also showed that he had dropped six points in the last two weeks of May. This could not be credited entirely to the Willkie boom: many a crack had been taken at "Toothbrush Tom," and perhaps voters were getting cold feet about...
Meanwhile, from a standing start in March, when he polled less than a 1% vote among Republican rank & file, Willkie had risen to 3% in early May; last week the Gallup Poll gave him 10%. On the strength of the surprising write-in vote (at last count more than 24,000) for Willkie in New Jersey's primary, observers predicted that Willkie might get the votes of half of New Jersey's 32 delegates (pledged to Dewey...