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...alliances. The fatal smell of 1917 is still too heavy in the air. On the other hand, the U. S. people will buy almost anything -from a piece of the power business to the world's biggest breadline-and 74% of the citizens canvassed in a recent Gallup poll were eager to buy a big navy, the kind of Big Navy that Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress for two weeks...
...statements at this time by Governor Earle on political issues are certain to attract widespread attention in view of the fact that he has been mentioned frequently as the possible nominee of the Democratic Party in 1940 should President Roosevelt decline to run for a third term. Liberty's poll of newspaper editors considered him as second only to Roosevelt as the most likely man to be elected...
...Herald Tribune informally canvassed staffmen on what each would study if he were awarded a Nieman Fellowship. The poll: Economics, 24; U. S. History, 2 ; English Composition, 3 ; English Literature, 1; Spanish, 1; Zoology, 1; Mathematics, 1; Business Management, 1; Ethics...
...considered unemployed were actually at work on relief jobs. Nearly 6,000,000 were men, nearly 2,000,000 women. Difficulty of interpreting the census-beyond weeding out cards from people who had misunderstood them even more completely than the 20% who, according to a Gallup Poll, thought their replies would bring them jobs-was where to draw the line between regular workers and housewives, sons of families, dependents, retired workers who work only at intervals. Mr. Biggers proposed that his census be further checked by a "cross-sectional enumeration of our test areas" to make his figures more informative...
...recent poll of the Football Writers Association Harvard received the highest rating of any Eastern college in respect to treatment of the newshawks. The Crimson got an 87.2 vote of confidence for the working conditions of newspaper men. Special mention was made of the press box in the Stadium...