With only three per cent of those polled opposing the appointment on the ground of race and 15 per cent on other grounds, the American Institute of Public Opinion reports that 82 per cent of the American voters favor the naming of Prof. Felix Frankfurter to the United States Supreme Court. He takes his seat tomorrow.
The nation-wide survey indicates, said the institute, of which Dr. George Gallup is the director, that the appointment may prove to be one of the most generally acceptable appointments that President Roosevelt has made. Six persons in every ten, on the average, expressed an opinion on the question: “Do you think that Felix Frankfurter will make a good United States Supreme Court judge?” In New England, the section from which Prof. Frankfurter comes, the approval was greatest — 90 per cent.
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