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Word: polling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...votes cast by the Leverett House tutors in a poll yesterday, an overwhelming majority was for Roosevelt; 21 votes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett Tutors Back F.D.R. | 10/25/1940 | See Source »

...hooray!" chortled Henry H. Morgan '41, president of the Leverett House Babson Club, as the returns on the Dunny presidential poll came in last night. And well he might, for his pressure group for the Prohibitionist candidate piled up more votes than the combined total of both the major parties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BABSON SUPPORTERS STAMPEDE BUNNY POLL; MORGAN GLOATES | 10/23/1940 | See Source »

...students voted for Willkie, with 107 for President Roosevelt, four for Thomas, and one for Prohibitionist Babson. 56 percent of the students voted in the poll...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUSINESS SCHOOL FAVORS W. W. BY LARGE MARGINS OVER F. D. R. | 10/22/1940 | See Source »

Student and Faculty members of the Business School will vote over whelmingly for Wendell L. Willkie, according to a poll recently conducted by the Harbus News, Business School paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUSINESS SCHOOL FAVORS W. W. BY LARGE MARGINS OVER F. D. R. | 10/22/1940 | See Source »

Gruff Hugh S. Johnson, who regards polls as public evils "not to be swallowed whole," offered to eat his syndicated Scripps-Howard column if the Gallup poll should prove correct this fall. Dr. George Horace Gallup accepted and replied: "My newspaper existence will end if I fail to predict the election correctly, but General Johnson will only have to eat a page* of newspaper print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 21, 1940 | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

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