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...side (although a February FORTUNE poll showed only 4.4% of citizens against Lend-Lease to Russia) were the old suspicions, the old fear (now a tool of Axis propaganda) that a victorious Russia would be as bad as or worse than a Fascist Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Tough Baby from Moscow | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

Freshmen with pent-up gripes against their courses, instructors, and examinations will be able to give vent to their feelings today in the poll for next year's Confidential Guide to Freshmen Courses. Ballots will be handed out in the Union at lunch and super today, and seathing comments will be welcomed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Confy Guide to Poll '45 | 5/8/1942 | See Source »

...poll also showed a feeling among the Square merchants that the war has caused undergraduate thought to turn closer to home this year than on past Mother's Days, resulting in the great increase in telegraming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN THINK OF THEIR MOTHERS, SQUARE SALES SHOW | 5/8/1942 | See Source »

...April FORTUNE survey, that "the idea of 'Union Now' with Britain or any other nation was rejected by the people." I am sure you had no intention of misleading even the thoughtless, but may I suggest that this unqualified statement may have that effect? . . . That poll can also be interpreted to show a remarkable trend toward the basic ideas of Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 4, 1942 | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...other hand, public-opinion-poll experts have told me that it is extremely hard to find a way to word the Union Now question that will give accurate results. Other findings of the FORTUNE survey confirm the fact that the results vary widely, depending on how the question is put. Thus, whereas April FORTUNE shows 8.4% favoring a Union of Democracies, last December's FORTUNE, where the question was put somewhat differently, showed 59.7% favored it. Opinion certainly has not changed that much since then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 4, 1942 | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

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