Word: canvassing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ineffectuality this year. By overcautiously trying to win Republican agreement before bringing proposals to a committee vote, he has lost Democratic backing. In operating too much on his own, he has failed to collect the committee's fragmented Democratic majority into a united front. By failing to canvass committee members with sufficient care, he has frequently misjudged how they would vote...
Pollster George Gallup, in a canvass taken since Nixon's return from Russia and Poland, reported that Nixon, among both Republican and independent voters, had significantly increased his margin over Rockefeller in the past month...
...those Depression days, the young lawyer had to canvass ten firms before he got his first offer. When he applied for a job at the Manhattan law firm of White & Case, which numbered U.S. Steel among its clients, the official who interviewed Roger Blough noted: "First-class chap; good, clean-looking, talked intelligently. We would probably make no mistake." Irving Olds, former chairman of U.S. Steel, who moved into the company from White & Case himself, puts it another way: "Blough was one of those fellows who turn up no more than once in ten years...
...trial in the Fall Term, a poll indicated 3-1 approval of the innovation. Thus encouraged, the Committee borrowed better equipment for last Friday and played "everything from Mozart to Mantovani." Since the response was violently inconclusive, Peter A. Lindenbaum '60, chairman of the House Committee, admitted that another canvass would probably be in order...
After an informal canvass of Dudley opinion, the Committee recommended that Delmar Leighton '19, Master of Dudley House, oppose the Lehman Hall site when the Administration considers the matter...