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...During the last election there were seventeen million people who voted against the present Administration. I think if you would take a poll of these seventeen million people you would find an overwhelming majority of them believe in collective bargaining . . . social security . . . unemployment insurance. They believe in relief-relief to the needy and unemployed, but not the financing of a vast political machine under the false label of relief. They believe in a better distribution of wealth created, in raising the standard of living, and a great many other social reforms...
Last month Station WQXR invited its listeners to submit lists of compositions they would like to hear, designated this month as "request month." Three hundred-odd replies contained 3,286 requests for individual compositions. WQXR's request poll found Beethoven leading, with Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Brahms, Mozart and Bach following in the order named...
From a 400-square-foot pocket among the 10,000-foot peaks of the Upper Pyrenees Lieut. Colonel Antonio Beltran last week led his troops of Leftist Spain's "Lost Division" into France. There, French police took their customary secret poll of the refugees to determine to which side of Spain the men wanted to return, then herded them into trains for the border. Only 980 voted to go to Rightist Spain; the remaining 8,820 elected to return to Leftist territory. Arriving at Gerona, the first contingent of the "Lost Division" received a rousing greeting from Spanish Leftists...
Most surprising upset of the election was the showing of Dublin's Lord Mayor, Alfred Byrne, Fine Gael Party member. For 20 years dapper, little "Alf" has ruled the Dublin roost. Last week, his total poll barely gave him the third seat under proportional representation in Dublin's Northeast district as "Dev's" Minister for Posts & Telegraphs, Oscar Traynor, took the first, a Cosgravite the second...
Once called a "pump-priming" measure, the bill had been given the horrid name of a "poll-priming'' device, because of WTAdministrator Harry Hopkins' pointed comment on the Iowa primary election (see p. 16). Leader Barkley admitting Mr. Hopkins had been indiscreet, nevertheless marshaled his Administration cohorts to defeat every effort to attach penalties, however light, to political use of relief billions. New Mexico's Hatch, a Democrat, and Vermont's Austin, a Republican, each tried to prohibit WPA administrative employes from taking active part in elections. Each was voted down by a close margin...