Word: galluped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wendell Willkie is gaining popularity for the 1944 Republican Presidential nomination. This was the big subsurface political news noted last week by observers whose ears are well grounded. The trend may not be immediately apparent on the normal political barometers (the latest Gallup poll still had Willkie a firm second to New York's Thomas E. Dewey), but political wiseacres, taking the pulse of the people, were sure. Travelers who talked politics up & down the Midwest were especially struck by the resurgence of Willkie talk. One such was the New York Times's Turner Catledge, who was surprised...
...next great Congressional debate on the international position of the U.S. will come this fall. Once the question for debate was: Should the U.S. cooperate with the other United Nations? Now all that is over the dam. The people have said yes (the most recent Gallup poll showed 74% for an international police force). The Republican Party generally has cleared its skirts of isolationism; with this refuge gone, only a few really bigoted isolationists remain...
...Gallup pollsters last week asked Southern voters to name one choice for the next Democratic Presidential candidate. The South's choice: Roosevelt, 80%; Byrnes, 8; Wallace, 6; Farley, 3; McNutt, 2; Douglas, 1; Winant, less than...
...great gap war has torn in their merchandising, Sears announced a new venture: its own monthly book club. Sears is out for 100,000 members who will agree to take at least four books a year-at $1.66 each, plus postage. The books are to be selected by a Gallup poll of the club's own members-"a people's book club organized to provide books selected by the people for the people." The first pre-Gallup selection: Marcia Davenport's best-selling novel Valley of Decision. First premium (for joining): Lloyd Douglas' best-selling...
...week's end Tom Dewey-candidate or not-still led the Gallup straw poll for Republicans with 37% (he had dropped a point). Next in line: Wendell Willkie 28%, General Douglas MacArthur 15%, Bricker...