Word: gallup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Irene Kadlec hunched down closer. With sympathy and perseverance, she coaxed forth the answers to a dozen other questions. She was doing her job as an interviewer for the Gallup Poll...
Twenty-one hundred miles away, in Chicago, a 20-year-old university student named Barry Nathan pinned on his Gallup Poll button and sallied forth. He concentrated on first-floor apartments ("it's harder for them to refuse") and people waiting in self-service laundries ("God's gift to the interviewer"). Unlike chatty Mrs. Kadlec, he invariably opened his interview with the approved Gallup introduction: "I'd like your opinion on a few leading topics...
Needles in a Haystack. Last week, sitting in his Princeton, N.J. office, Dr. George Horace Gallup riffled contentedly through the answers. A big, friendly, teddybear of a man with a passion for facts & figures, Pollster Gallup has been finding needles in the U.S. haystack for the past twelve years. Other pollsters, like Elmo Roper and Archibald Crossley, have been doing it just as long. But George Gallup's four-a-week releases to 126 U.S. newspapers have made the "Gallup Poll" a household word and Gallup the Babe Ruth of the polling profession...
...Gallup poll reported this week that either Tom Dewey, Arthur Vandenberg, Harold Stassen or Douglas MacArthur would defeat the President if the election were held now. Only Bob Taft ran behind Harry Truman; Henry Wallace was a poor third (no more than...
...must to all things, the Gallup poll finally came to boxing. Last week, with a plump (14 Ibs. over fighting weight) Joe Louis making the rounds in Paris,* the pollsters asked U.S. sport followers what they expected when Big Joe goes against Jersey Joe Walcott again on June 23. Decision: Louis, 49%; Walcott, 36%. No decision...