Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purpose of this survey, Rowse chose to concentrate on part of the 1952 Presidential campaign coverage.. He cites some important background statistics: according to Editor & Publisher's poll of the nation's newspapers, in terms of circulation 80 percent of the papers sold daily editorially backed Eisenhower, 11 percent supported Stevenson and 9 percent were uncommitted; of the weekly papers 75 percent favored Eisenhower, 20 percent Stevenson, with the others undecided...
...violent denial of Negroes' right to vote that marked Reconstruction days has long since given place to more subtle methods. The white primary is no more. The poll tax, though still in force in five Southern states, has lost most of its economic bite, but is sometimes used (notably in Virginia), as a device for confusing Negroes and poor whites out of their chance to register...
...have already decided that the pennant is in the bag. They are so proud of their team that they have stuffed the All-Star ballot boxes so full that the All-Star game voting (which picks every starter except the pitchers) has been reduced to a patriotic absurdity. The poll count decreed that the National League start Cincinnati Redlegs at every position except first base. There, St. Louis' sturdy oldtimer Stan Musial managed to stand off the Redlegs' rooters. Though the balloting was perfectly legal under the somewhat farcical procedures followed by the big leagues, Commissioner Ford Frick...
...Poll behind them, the freshmen returned to athletic pursuits. The team forgot its rout by the varsity and treat softly into the monolithic Stadium to beat a green Dartmouth team, 11 to 0, It was the first time a freshman team had played in the Stadium, and the '32 eleven was properly impressed. Harvard was changing, and the old and the comfortable had to give way to the broad vision of the mustachioed president in University Hall, who knew much and told little, and who had many new ideas for Harvard...
Outside Quebec, the Liberals' solid South, the Prime Minister's party has slumped badly since the last election, in the latest Gallup poll held a lead of only 2.6% over the Tories. Yet by sweeping Quebec's bloc of 75 Commons seats, the Liberals can ride out the Tory gains elsewhere. Last week the 75-year-old Prime Minister moved spryly through the Quebec countryside, battening down the Liberals' holdings with talks in flawless French. "I will tell you a secret, which really isn't a secret, concerning the method which has helped...