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...Longshoremen's Association, and the Waterfront Employers' Association. Negotiations on a contract to replace it found both sides in a thoroughly truculent mood last week. Debates were featured by such extreme proposals from both labor and management that the shipowners finally suggested arbitration. The longshoremen agreed to poll their members on the proposal, frankly adding that they would try to instigate another general strike rather than give in an inch to the shipowners. As the referendum started on the Pacific Coast, Longshoreman Bridges set about involving the rest of the U. S. by getting...
...ballots being sent out by Literary Digest in its quadrennial Presidential poll, the first batch returned -from Maine, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania-were last week reported marked as follows: Landon, 16,056; Roosevelt, 7,645; Lemke, 754. Because ballots were few, came from no metropolitan areas, and because three of the four States are normally Republican, political observers uniformly discounted Landon's 2-to-1 lead. First returns of the Digest's 1932 poll showed Hoover ahead...
...Last week's report of the American Institute of Public Opinion showed Roosevelt up one-tenth of 1% from its poll of the previous fortnight, with 52.6% of the major party popular vote against 47.4% for Landon. Michigan and Colorado shifts to Landon were offset by Ohio's shift to Roosevelt, raising him one electoral vote to a lead...
...traffic violation. Driving to Manhattan in their own cars at the expense of the American Automobile Association and the Commercial Investment Trust Safety Foundation, they settled down at the WaldorfAstoria for a three-day palaver about highway safety. Only one of their deliberations produced anything newsworthy: a poll of their open road driving speeds filled out anonymously by 42 of the 49. The results...
...captain is being elected by mail this summer but the results of the poll have not been announced as yet. Jim Gaffney, mainstay in one of the guard positions last year, is thought to have the inside track, but Bob Jones, center, Bill Watt, George Hedblom and George Ford, backs, should also garner some votes...