Word: gallup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreign alliances. The fatal smell of 1917 is still too heavy in the air. On the other hand, the U. S. people will buy almost anything -from a piece of the power business to the world's biggest breadline-and 74% of the citizens canvassed in a recent Gallup poll were eager to buy a big navy, the kind of Big Navy that Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress for two weeks...
...total, 2,000,000 considered unemployed were actually at work on relief jobs. Nearly 6,000,000 were men, nearly 2,000,000 women. Difficulty of interpreting the census-beyond weeding out cards from people who had misunderstood them even more completely than the 20% who, according to a Gallup Poll, thought their replies would bring them jobs-was where to draw the line between regular workers and housewives, sons of families, dependents, retired workers who work only at intervals. Mr. Biggers proposed that his census be further checked by a "cross-sectional enumeration of our test areas" to make...
...tart comment appeared, it became apparent also that Joe Kennedy's calls at the White House would henceforth be less frequent, since he had been given the job of Ambassador to England (see p. 10). By week's end. neither the N. A. M. meeting nor a Gallup poll in which 58% of the replies held the New Deal wholly or partly responsible for the depression, drew a response from the White House. By way of a moderate gesture of encouragement to Business, the President, however, told a press conference that he was against Government control of railroads...
...Gallup Poll (small sample groups of voters polled by mail and interview): Roosevelt 40 States, 477 electoral votes. Landon 6 States, 42 electoral votes (Connecticut and Rhode Island...
...Both Gallup and Crossley polls, however, listed some 14 States as too close for accurate prediction...