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...Great Depression made a minority out of the Republican Party-and kept it that way for many a year. In November 1951, the Gallup poll found that 37% of the voters thought the nation's economic future was safest in the hands of the Democrats, while only 29% believed that prosperity could best be had under the Republicans. This public attitude in 1952 was outweighed by Dwight Eisenhower's personal popularity, but in that campaign the most effective Democratic slogan, "Don't let 'em take it away," harked back to Depression memories. As late as November...
Last week the Republicans moved ahead on the Gallup question: "Which party can best keep America prosperous?" The breakdown: Republican 38%, Democratic 34% (no difference or no opinion 28%). This indicates a basic shift in voter atti tudes, which is the Republican Party's best hope for 1956-if Ike does...
...Gallup Pollsters added up the figures in their annual popularity contest for women, proclaimed that Eleanor Roosevelt, in the opinion of the U.S. public, is the world's "most admired" living woman-a distinction she has won nine years out of the past ten.* The runners-up, in the order of their public appeal: U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce, Mamie Eisenhower, Helen Keller, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Madame Chiang Kaishek, Britain's Princess Margaret (a newcomer to the top ten), India's Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase...
...Council of Scientific Investigation, an agency of Franco's office, took an anonymous poll of some 400 Madrid University students, carefully selected from various faculties and home backgrounds to give a Gallup-type cross section of opinion. The students were asked what they thought of 1) the ruling minority, 2) the military leaders, 3) the university professors, 4) the church hierarchy...
...Among the other charter members: Director Leo Perils of the C.I.O. Community Services Committee; Mrs. Barry Bingham, vice president of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times; Economist Beardsley Ruml; President John Cowles of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune; Pollster George Gallup; Mrs. Bruce Gould, co-editor of the Ladies' Home Journal; Executive Director Lester Granger of the National Urban League; Pundit Walter Lippmann; Mrs. Eugene Meyer of the Washington Post...