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President Truman did none of these. At that time Harry Truman's popularity index in the Gallup poll was beginning to decline. The 1946 congressional elections were less than a year away. The Republicans were preparing to attack, and the left wing of Harry Truman's own party was doubtful about him. If Truman had withdrawn the White appointment, howls would have risen from the right and left. Whatever his motive, the President signed White's commission. When he quit. Truman and Treasury Secretary Snyder wrote him letters of praise that laid it on thick enough...
Long popular with the local gentry, the college's Gallup rating has jumped noticeably since the quad's completion. Twenty percent of the undergraduates commute from nearby Providence and many are clamoring to live with the big windows and dinner music. But the quad is already crammed...
ARMY SERGEANT HIROSHI H. MIYAMURA, 27, a Nisei, of Gallup, N. Mex.: ". . . Wielding his bayonet in close hand-to-hand combat, killing approximately ten of the enemy . . . bayoneted his way through infiltrated enemy soldiers to a second [machine] gun emplacement and . . . killed more than 50 of the enemy...
...strongest statistical evidence came from Pollster George Gallup. Last fortnight Gallup asked: "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Eisenhower is handling his job as President?" The results: 65% approve, 20% disapprove, 15% have no opinion. By any standard, 65% approval is a high rating. But for President Eisenhower, the figure represented a sharp drop of 10 percentage points in just six weeks...
...third of the nation. The Gallup poll reported last week that only one voter out of three in a cross-section survey said yes when asked whether he had "heard or read anything" about the tariff issue. Of this "informed" one-third, 50% thought tariffs should be lowered, 21% thought they should be raised. The rest favored no change, or had no opinion...