Word: polling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...
...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...
Because the FORTUNE Poll forecast the 1936 popular vote within 2%, because New Dealers have long taken President Roosevelt's political invincibility for granted, poll findings made a deeper impression in Washington than elsewhere in the U. S. New Dealers solaced themselves with the belief that Wendell Willkie had reached the crest of his wave, would now decline. The FORTUNE Survey itself pointed out-"A public whose preferences are as fluid as the comparison of these returns indicates may react against the Republican candidate after the first delighted surprise at his nomination has worn off. And Willkie...
...year, one in five dropped in at the Palace of Fine Arts to see the $30,000,000 collection of European masterpieces. This summer the Palace had to make heavy substitutions in its show (TIME, June 24), and Palace officials have been curious about its popularity. They took a poll. Results, tabulated last week, were disappointing...