Word: polle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assignment of William H. Crawford, free lance. Selecting at random 200 Senators and Congressmen, half Republican, half Democratic, he wormed out of each in confidence his "real senti-ments." In the April Cosmopolitan ap- peared last week the results (but with no names mentioned) of Mr. Crawford's Prohibition poll. Major findings...
Consolidating the personal opposition to present-day Prohibition among the 200 men polled, and stepping its ratio up to the full membership of Congress (531), it is found that, politics aside, 369 members would favor a Change as opposed to 162 standpat Drys. But the same method of calculation shows that Modification in a real test would poll less than 225 votes. Therefore among the 369 privately for a Change there are more than 150 Senators and Representatives who vote Dry and think, if not drink...
Last year a poll among Yalemen showed that 71% of the student body drank (TIME, March 24). Last fortnight the Woman's Christian Temperance Union issued figures compiled from a survey of U. S. land-grant colleges showing that in 1928 only .16 of 1% of the undergraduates were disciplined for drinking...
...Permanent Class Committee inherited a nice problem. The note of the class to adopt the insurance plan was apparently taken without adequate investigation of the scheme by the officers and without sufficient knowledge of the question in the minds of the voters to make possible an intelligent poll...
Obviously, in a close election, as this was, a man receiving a large number of fifth choices would poll a poorer vote than if each fifth vote received as much consideration as a first choice. It is also plain that a candidate receiving numerous second and third votes would be elected rather than a nominee polling a few first and a numerous number of last choices. When the Senior Class is under the apprehension that it is balloting under the preferential system, it may use, if it wishes, the first choice for candidates whom it believes to be weak, with...