Word: elmo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than a third of the people (27.6%) are out-&-out for Roosevelt for a Fourth Term. A slightly larger number (29.6%) are out-&-out for Dewey. But if the election had been held in mid-July, Roosevelt would have won by a landslide. This is the net result of Elmo Roper's latest FORTUNE Survey of Public Opinion...
...shadow of war still darkens Republican Presidential ambitions, as it did in 1940. But if this shadow lifts, will another take its place? Last week FORTUNE'S Elmo Roper found that 22.7% of the people surveyed were agreed: "I would like to vote for someone else besides Roosevelt if the Republicans would nominate someone good, [but] I am not sure they will...
Within a few days after Wendell Willkie's withdrawal from the Republican Presidential race, interviewers from the research firm of Elmo Roper began asking questions in all sections of the U.S. for the regular FORTUNE Survey of Public Opinion. The questioning ended April 15. TIME herewith continues its new practice of reporting the most newsworthy results of this survey immediately upon their tabulation...
...latest samplings of public opinion -conducted for FORTUNE by the research firm of Elmo Roper-are presented below. FORTUNE studies long-term trends of public opinion. But sometimes, particularly during political campaigns when opinion veers swiftly, the value of survey results depends on quick publication. Therefore, TIME, because of its fast printing schedule, will undertake to distribute the results of those FORTUNE surveys-political and otherwise-which are peculiarly current. And it will continue to report as heretofore the results of other polls of interest...
...EARNEST ELMO CALKINS Lakeville, Conn...