Word: galluped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early this week the bill had not even reached amendment stage. Leader Barkley bumbled about longer hours, which he hates, since as Leader he would have to sit longer than any of the others, had his bluff swiftly called. A Gallup poll showed U. S. sentiment for the bill down three points, though still 55% in favor. A disgusted Senator grumbled privately: "Wheeler's doing all right. He talked long enough to let Hitler take another country. If he can keep it up we won't need the bill anyway. It will be too late." The Senate talked...
Temperature of that atmosphere was measured this week by the Gallup Poll, which reported that 60% of U. S. voters believed U. S. interests would be menaced if Japan took Singapore and The Netherlands East Indies. A majority-56%-believed that the U. S. should try to keep the Japanese from doing...
Last week Young America was offered a new eye-compelling antidote to the comic books-a 64-page, bi-monthly called True Comics (10?60? a year). The publisher was Parents' Magazine, headed by able George J. Hecht. Advisory board included Historian David S. Muzzey, George Gallup (Gallup Poll), Shirley Temple, Mickey Rooney. The idea: to fight fire with fire...
From a geographical point of view, the results were in accordance with those expressed in the Gallup poll. New England, the Middle Atlantic states, the South, and the Far West have results which correlate to a great extent. The Eastern Central states and the Western Central states also are close to each other in sympathy with a less warlike attitude than their neighbors...
Last week the Gallup Poll (which had previously shown that President Roosevelt had the support of an unprecedented 71% of the electorate) showed in preliminary figures that only 54% endorsed the Lend-Lease Bill, most of them with modifications. The discrepancy was significant. To Pundit Walter Lippmann opposition to the bill was a refusal to admit the importance of the crisis. To Pundit Mark Sullivan it was a sign of confusion over the objectives of the bill itself. But whatever course of action the U. S. chose, its attitude had all the earmarks of a gigantic national self-deception...