Word: galluped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year enlistment and have a waiting list? Why not tell that the compromise suggests instead the proposal to give young men a chance to volunteer on a one-year basis at $30 a month instead of the present $21 and three-year enlistment? Why not bring out that the Gallup Poll, which you use as an argument for conscription, did not get the poll on the present Burke-Wadsworth Bill. . . . Give us facts! And all of them...
...more men for emergency training in any reasonable time. In the hearings that Reader Partington cites, the Secretary of War and Chief of Staff repeatedly testified that neither proposed pay increases nor other inducements, but only conscription would produce the number of men needed. Although the Gallup Polls did not mention the Burke-Wadsworth Bill, the poll majority favoring conscription for one year's service increased significantly after the bill was introduced in Congress...
...Gallup Poll taken at May's end showed that the U. S. was divided half for, half against conscription. Last week another poll showed two-thirds of the U. S. people (67%) favored conscription. But also last week this majority seemed about to be defeated...
According to the Gallup Poll, 84% of U. S. citizens want Germany to lose World War II, and Hollywood is no more neutral than anyone else. But Hollywood is in business, and the strongest superstition of the augurs and warlocks who preside over the industry's trade journals and nurture the industry's various hunches about what the U. S. public wants is that it does not want "war pictures." What this category includes, outside bad pictures like Beasts of Berlin and Confessions of a Nazi Spy, no one knows, but fact remains that few producers have been...
When the Democratic Convention opened in Chicago, the Gallup Poll stood: President Roosevelt, 53%; Wendell Willkie, 47%. Another Gallup Poll taken in New York State before Convention's end gave New York to Willkie, 51%-to-49%. A week later Pennsylvania (where Dr. Gallup had previously found a growing Democratic sentiment) shifted: Willkie, 52%; Roosevelt...