Survey Indicates Political Trends
A Fortune Magazine survey released today shows public opinion against a Roosevelt third term by about eight percent. Lower middle class holds balance, with 41.2 percent for a third term and 49.1 percent opposed. FDR remains the most popular figure, though many want to modify New Deal reforms. Voters favor budget balance and war neutrality, with regulation of labor and trade policies noted.
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Census Enumerators Gate Life And Death In April Visit
Washington reports a census enumerator in Duluth counted a man despite his death mid interview while in Neosho Missouri John Oliver editor and enumerator helped a hurried doctor and assisted with a baby birth naming the newborn Oliver during data collection.
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Graff Alleges Dunn Resign sparked Bushfield cover up
A N Graff of Sioux Falls in Vermillion blamed Dunns resignation as P O T insurance commissioner for covering up a scandal in the Bushfield administration. He accused Dunn of taking fees from insurance examiners hired by companies and approved by Dunn, urging an investigation if elected governor. Mundt appeals and a local reader letter urges support for his viewpoint.
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Open Forum on Townsend Plan Versus Social Security Act Debate
The editor presents a defense of the Townsend Plan as a simple American alternative to the Social Security Act. It argues the Social Security system is bureaucratic, costly, and slow, while the Townsend plan uses existing agencies and a fair tax, promoting universal protection and a full trial. A Ways and Means committee dispute stalls H. R. 8264 awaiting discharge.
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Possibility Of Land Boom Seen In Reported War Effects
The Agriculture Department weighed the possibility of a land boom as World War conditions could lift farmland values. It warned inflation psychology might offset gains and urged legal measures to discourage excessive increases. Farm real estate values rose sharply after 1914 reaching 56.3 billion in 1926, now about 25.36 billion. Farmers’ first-quarter 1940 income rose 12 percent from 1939 to 1.987 billion. A data bill showdown looms as Congress weighs appropriations and questioned lobbied farm credit reform.
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