Word: galluped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Gallup (Institute of Public Opinion) last week found a ½% increase in Willkie's popular vote (to 45.5%), an increase of four in electoral votes (to 121), 7% of the voters still undecided. But ten key Roosevelt States were well within the poll's 4% margin of error, and the trend to Willkie had not been stopped. Preparing for the worst, Gallup confessed: ". . . There are . . . factors . . . which cannot be measured by scientific methods...
...White-Haired Boy" has all the car-marks of a good play. Satirizing an author whom the Gallup poll has concluded to be William Saroyan, it's crammed with crack-pot situations that would do justice to "You Can't Take It With You." Only this time it's Mrs. Kaufman along with Charles Martin who are the authors. They say that George sat through the first-night glum as an owl. His wife can make up the situations, but she just doesn't have the lines to go with them. The whole play is strained; at times it gets...
...According to a Gallup poll last fortnight, more people (24%) in the South want to go to war with Germany than in any other part...
...George Gallup (Institute of Public Opinion) last week reported a 1% increase in Willkie's popular vote (to 45%); an increase of 85 in electoral votes (from 32 to 117); a gain of five States...
Gruff Hugh S. Johnson, who regards polls as public evils "not to be swallowed whole," offered to eat his syndicated Scripps-Howard column if the Gallup poll should prove correct this fall. Dr. George Horace Gallup accepted and replied: "My newspaper existence will end if I fail to predict the election correctly, but General Johnson will only have to eat a page* of newspaper print...