Word: canvassing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another Gallup canvass, this one taken in the once-solid Democratic South, also came as bad news to Rockefeller. It pitted Goldwater, Rocky and Romney against one another in a series of trial heats against President Kennedy. Of the three, Rocky was the only Republican who would fail to carry the region.* The statistics...
...that has come over the 87-year-old Chancellor now that he has finally made up his mind to give up West Germany's top job. Last week he offered no objections when a caucus meeting of his Christian Democrats authorized C.D.U. Bundestag Leader Heinrich von Brentano to canvass all the factions and suggest a candidate to take over next fall and lead the party in the 1965 elections...
When Council members canvass the dorms to sell tickets for Saturday's "New Heaven" dance, they will also test freshman opinion about the proposal. Results have already come in from Weld South, where over 75 per cent of the students polled favored lengthening parietals...
...Houston Chronicle canvass gave Democrat John Connally a 3-2 lead over conservative Republican Jack Cox for Governor of Texas. But the survey team noted that Republicans are working hard, might win if complacent Democrats fail to get out a big vote...
...their proudest skill: salesmanship. "Out of 300,000 U.S. manufacturers, there aren't more than 15,000 who are doing anything at all about foreign trade," complains Commerce Department Export Director Edward Scriven. To maintain U.S. trade centers in London, Frankfurt and Bangkok, says he, "we have to canvass 3,000 to 4,000 businesses to find 50 that will exhibit, largely at Government expense...