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...Wall allowed himself a statistical error of 2%, definitely predicted that Roosevelt would win the popular vote although Willkie might have a majority on the electoral college. But in 1940, as in 1936, the closest estimate of the popular vote was made by quiet, curly-haired Elmo Burns Roper, who has never made any great hullabaloo because he was one of the first to undertake political polls by the scientific sampling method and still makes no extravagant claims for his surveys...
...Roper still considers the quadrennial roundup of U. S. citizens at the polls chiefly as a check on the accuracy of his surveys-a means of calibrating for errors in his sampling method. He pays close attention to the phrasing of questions in his interviews, in order to get the real beliefs of inarticulate or evasive citizens...
When Franklin Roosevelt let "Uncle Dan" Roper drowse on at Commerce for almost six years, it was apparent that he did not take very seriously the job which Herbert Hoover made one of the biggest in the Government. When the scandals of the 1938 Congressional campaign made Friend Harry's WPA job uncomfortably hot, Uncle Dan was moved out to make room for him. For the last year and a half, Hopkins' health has kept him away from his desk most of the time. Recently his health has improved slightly, but last week this was the excuse...
...Canadian ports, that Nazi Germany might claim Canada if she won-in which case unfortified bridges and boundaries would comfort neither U. S. citizens nor Canadians. Smooth Mr. Moffat raised no such grim prospects. Quizzed over the phone by a Toronto newspaper on how long he would stay ("Mr. Roper and Mr. Cromwell each spent about three months") he was reassuring: "I know ... I know . . . I'll stay longer. . . . There will be more and more to do. What these things are we can't reveal now, but Canada has become a most important post...
...arguments for making CAA once more a part of the Department of Commerce are chiefly that: 1) it will get rid of one more independent bureau; 2) the Department of Commerce is different now -Uncle Danny Roper is gone and the Under Secretary of Commerce is able Edward John Noble, CAA's first chairman; 3) CAA's own internal checks and balances have resulted in continual quarrels and minor complaints vexing to the President. To make the Department of Commerce seem more attractive, the President last week announced that he expected to appoint CAA's present head...