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...surprising result was obtained last month by a Fortune poll of public opinion. The question: "Should the Democratic powers, including the United States, now stand firm together at any cost to prevent Hitler or Mussolini from taking any more territory at the expense of other nations?" The answers: 56.3 per cent, Yes; 31 per cent, No; undecided, 12.7 per cent...
...Snadden said modestly: "The result will be a great encouragement to Mr. Chamberlain." The Prime Minister needed encouragement last week, for a few days before the election the British Institute of Public Opinion (Gallup Poll) revealed that while 60% of British opinion was behind the Chamberlain program of appeasement shortly after Munich, that majority last week had fallen...
...biggest box-office stars of the year, listed by Motion Picture Herald in its annual poll of 10,000 independent U. S. theatre owners, and representing for the first time stars of only two of Hollywood's major companies...
...YORK--Boxing needs a strong central figure to regulate the game on a national basis and Gene Tunney is the man for the job, the nation's sports editors said tonight in the United Press annual year-end poll...
...fact that the poll ... deals with general policies rather than with specific acts or measures makes it even more astounding that Yale opinion is so completely conservative. Perhaps Yale conservatives are more simply honest in their opposition to government regulation than most standpatters, but certainly this poll indicates that realization of the inevitability of government regulation of private enterprise has not come to a great many Yale students as yet. These men are pursuing an ostrich-like policy. --Yale News