Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Warming up to the 1956 poll-taking season, George Gallup sent his interviewers out to ask: If President Eisenhower does not run, who is your choice for the Republican presidential nomination? Among Republican voters, Gallup reported last week, the top choices were: U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren 25%, Vice President Richard Nixon 19%, former New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey...
...plans, which await Faculty approval, were made at an organizational meeting of the International Activities committee Monday, following the results of an informal Committee poll of foreign students. The poll indicated that the students were dissatisfied with present opportunities for meeting American students...
...Poll-Taker Blizzard found that the greatest single change in the ministry is caused by "the rapid shift that is being made from the life of the village and the countryside to the urbanized mass society." More than eight of the questionnaire's eleven pages were designed to draw out a ministerial self-portrait. From them Dr. Blizzard found that the ministers are asking themselves such questions...
...After completing a statewide survey on desegregation, the Texas Poll, a service financed by Texas newspapers, reported that the U.S. Supreme Court will have considerable difficulty enforcing its decision against Jim Crow schools. Of 1,000 Texans sampled, 45% said they favored maintaining segregation either by disobeying the law or finding a way to circumvent it. In other words, said the poll, any attempt at immediate integration will "stir up a storm of protest in Texas verging on public disrespect...
...varsity baseball team will rely on ace pitcher Andy Ward and a strong attack today to try to stop a Boston University nine which was picked in a preseason poll to be the top team in New England. The game will be played at Soldiers Field...