Word: canvassing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After just 150 days in office, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler last week took off for Europe on a two-week trip to meet and hear the views of his counterparts among the finance ministers and central bankers of Europe. Main purpose: to canvass European opinion about the next steps toward world monetary reform and to seek support of Fowler's proposal for a world monetary conference. The importance of the trip was underscored by the fact that Fowler was accompanied by Undersecretary of State George Ball, Treasury Undersecretary Fred Deming and five Treasury, State and White House aides...
...workers will work at least six hours per week and will move on to a new campus once a volunteer program has taken seed. It is hoped that they will canvass the entire state within several months...
...Amazing," whistled the candy plant owner, "simply amazing. Five weeks ago he took two hours to canvass this factory. Today he'll make it in twenty minutes...
...discuss what to do about the chronic shortage of campaign funds. Already, the top advisers have analyzed past election returns in sufficient detail to assign every county in the U.S. (total: 3,131) a quota of Goldwater votes to deliver. Their three-phase plan for precinct-level activity: 1) canvass every household for Goldwater votes, 2) help those voters get to the polls, 3) watch the polling places so as to be sure that the votes are tallied accurately...
California Pollster Mervin Field is following a trend toward "randomization" in selecting interviewees. He divides California into six regions, on which he collects basic social and economic data. Within each region he assigns interviewers to a few blocks in each county, instructs them to canvass, for example, every third house from the corner, ignoring race, religion, age and income. He insists only that an equal number of men and women be polled. Such random selection, the theory goes, will ensure a good cross section. Declares Field: "You either put your faith in probabilities...