Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arnold L. Schucter '55, leading opposition to the idea of a Council-sponsored poll, said the Council would only be "answering McCarthy's ridiculous charge with a ridiculous poll...
...Student Council voted informally last night to continue plans for its poll of student opinion on whether Harvard professors are indoctrinating students to Communism...
...widely reported poll during the 1952 presidential campaign, 19 correspondents traveling with Stevenson favored him with only nine for Eisenhower, while of those traveling with Ike 24 favored Stevenson, seven...
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 If Truman had withdrawn the White appointment, howls would have risen from the right and left.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...
...Ramon Magsaysay, and the corruption-pocked regime of ailing President Elpidio Quirino. Quirino men who came to power in a corrupt election four years ago had orders to win at all costs. The country seethed with reports-some true, some floated by the opposition-of administration money to juggle poll-watching police and army officers, to stuff ballot boxes, to buy Quirino votes and to intimidate Magsaysay voters...