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...Gallup poll revealed that 51% of those voting (less in New England and the West, more in the South and Mid-Atlantic) think President & Mrs. Roosevelt should return the visit of King George & Queen Elizabeth...
...Motion Picture Herald's exhibitors' Poll, after Shirley Temple, Clark Gable...
...Most polls of the radio audience are concerned mainly with who is selling the most what to whom. Radio Guide's is different. For the last six years, Radio Guide has polled its weekly fan circulation and friends to find out which radio personalities make the deepest and most enduring impression on listeners. This year 750,000 ballots were clipped from the magazine between April 15 and May 31 and mailed to its offices in Chicago. Last week the poll was tabulated. The choices...
...mannerisms poor, poise fair. "Notably inept at speech-making," Senator Taft is marked down nevertheless as a "phenomenon of the politico-radio world." Reason: after his series of 13 radio debates with witty Congressman T. V. Smith, a radio veteran, on New Deal policies early this year, a Gallup Poll totted the score thus: Taft 66%, Smith 34%. Explanation: "He speaks a homely common sense with a sincerity that makes people listen to him anyway...
...Florida the law says that a political party must poll at least 15% of votes cast in general elections to keep its place on the ballot at the next election. Two years ago the required figure was 30%, but the Legislature lowered it for the benefit of the Republican Party. Last week Florida's Legislature acted again, cut the figure to 5% for the vestigial...