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...support of the King. One reason for this is that the police always "work for the King's candidate" (four people were killed last week) and this factor alone has been found by experience to be worth 20% of the votes. If a Premier can then poll 20% more on his own popularity he is sure of a majority, for under Rumania's specially tailored electoral law any party winning 40% of the vote is automatically given 75% of the seats in the Lower Chamber...
...followers had won only 38.5% of the Chamber seats, the Premier claimed they had won just over 40% of the popular vote, and that that sufficed. Next the Government suddenly announced that as yet there were no official returns. Everyone already knew, however, that the main feature of the poll, apart from Tatarescu's failure to win 40%, had been tremendous gains by the so-called Rumanian Nazis...
...Associated Press poll of 50 leading sportswriters revealed Tennist Donald Budge as No. 1 U. S. male athlete of 1937; Swimmer Katherine Rawls, No. 1 female athlete of 1937; the New York Yankees, No. 1 athletic team...
...comment appeared, it became apparent also that Joe Kennedy's calls at the White House would henceforth be less frequent, since he had been given the job of Ambassador to England (see p. 10). By week's end. neither the N. A. M. meeting nor a Gallup poll in which 58% of the replies held the New Deal wholly or partly responsible for the depression, drew a response from the White House. By way of a moderate gesture of encouragement to Business, the President, however, told a press conference that he was against Government control of railroads (seep...
...thing no dictator can do is control the weather. Another thing no dictator can do is make cinemaddicts prefer one movie star to another. Hollywood's dictator, the box office, realistically recognizes this fact, always bows to the unpredictable will of the people. Last week a nationwide poll on the comparative popularity of current cinema stars showed Hollywood which way to bow. The one-day poll was conducted by 53 newspapers of the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate (combined circulation approximately 20,000,000) in the U. S. and Canada. Results (male and female separately...