Word: galluped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public temper could be judged by a Gallup poll, taken before the coal-mine dispute. Even before John Lewis staged his Ajax-defying-the-lightning act, 73% of voters agreed that the Government should forbid strikes in defense industries. Report of a survey taken among union members themselves should have given Labor Leader Lewis pause. Workers voted 56% in favor of forbidding defense strikes; only 39% were opposed; 5% undecided...
...that stud the Churchill Cabinet-Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Halifax, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood, War Secretary Captain David Margesson and others-seem to many Britons touched with the odor of Munich. Last week the growth of discontent in Britain could be measured in figures. A Gallup poll recorded that only 29% of the citizens polled felt that their country was making the most of its opportunities, only 44% were satisfied with the Government's war conduct. (Even after the disaster of Crete 58% were satisfied with the war effort...
...25th anniversary of Mrs. Sanger's clinic. They noted with pride that: 1) there are now more than 620 contraceptive centers all over the country, serving millions of women in 46 States (distributing birth-control information is still illegal in Massachusetts and Connecticut); 2) in a recent Gallup poll, 77% of U.S. citizens favored the teaching of contraception through Government health clinics...
Last fortnight 13,000,000 people in the U.S. sneezed, wheezed and sniffled with colds, reported the Gallup Poll. Mr. Gallup plans to ask the U.S. about its colds every fortnight this year...
...strong group of Roosevelt supporters; they also read the secular press, which last week was 69% interventionist. Remembered last week was the discrepancy between the Catholic press and Catholics in the Spanish Civil War. After two years of nearly total pro-Franco sentiment in the Catholic press, a Gallup poll showed that one-third of U.S. Catholics were neutral, 43% were pro-Loyalist, less than 25% pro-Franco...