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...expected, isolationist outbursts in the press (notably Hearst's) and Congress were evoked by the President's promise of U. S. participation in a world disarmament and economic conference. But a Gallup poll revealed that 73% of the U. S. people "would like to see the heads of the leading nations" confer...
Among the speakers were: Professor O. M. Sprague, professor of Banking and Finance at Harvard; Dr. George H. Gallup, president of the American Institute of Public Opinion; Elmo Roper, president of the Market Survey Concern of Elmo Roper; and George B. Hotchkiss professor of Marketing at New York University...
...George Horace Gallup, the Iowa professor of journalism who developed public pulse-taking as an aid to advertisers, later as a mirror to newsreaders, a guide to politicians, last week reported that, of his pollees...
While Dr. Gallup's doorbell-ringers sought a statistical answer to the question of whether or not people want the U. S. to participate in a world conference to avert war, TIME through its correspondents and news services traced a contour map of U. S. public opinion. Object: to break down Dr. Gallup's national totals into the kinds and degrees of war sentiment dominant in the U. S. last week prior to Franklin Roosevelt's dramatic peace invitation to the Dictators...
...Howard noted a recent Gallup poll which announced that half the people of the U. S. approve of gambling, in church or out. He saw that, out of more than 200 Episcopal and Roman Catholic bishops, not more than a dozen or so banned Bingo as a means of raising money. He heard that priests in Trenton, N. J. defied police attempting to enforce the law against gambling, were backed up by a grand jury; that "bingo-mad" women in Detroit hissed, hooted, flew at raiding police; that in Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Maryland, legislators were urged to legalize games...