Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stouffer, basing his article on a nationwide poll taken last summer for the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic, cautions against interpreting the findings as evidence of widespread concern about civil liberties. "These opinions do not reflect deep personal anxiety or concern," he says. "The American people do not lie awake nights worrying about either communists or civil liberties...
Community leaders such as mayors, American Legion Commanders and labor union presidents all display more tolerance than the public generally, the poll showed. For example, about twice as many leaders as members of the public at large would permit public speeches "against churches or religion." A similar ratio of leaders to public would permit an admitted Communist to speak publicly...
...poll showed that women are less tolerant of nonconformity than men and that churchgoers also are intolerant of nonconformity...
...unbitten. Although Dwight Eisenhower has said no definite word, his party leaders are convinced that he will be a candidate and Richard Nixon will be his running mate. The thought of an Eisenhower candidacy is most comforting to Republicans, who note that in a last week's Gallup poll a whopping 71% of sampled voters generally approve the way the President is handling his job, and only 16% disapprove...
...Thirty years ago, a similar poll conducted by Critic Charensol produced an all-star team: Matisse, Maillol, Derain, Segonzac, Picasso, Utrillo, Rouault, Bonnard, Braque and Vlaminck...