Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student at Boston's Northeastern University polled 1,500 teachers of history and government in 500 U.S. universities to find out how they ranked American Presidents, emerged with results virtually identical to those of LIFE'S 1948 poll conducted by Harvard's Arthur Schlesinger Sr. The top four: Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson. The bottom two: Ulysses S. Grant, Warren G. Harding...
...actor of genuine promise, Dean made only three movies (East of Eden Rebel Without a Cause, Giant), and only the first had appeared at his death. Today he ranks No. 1 in Photoplay's actor popularity poll, draws 1,000 fan letters-a week ("Dear Jimmy: I know you are not dead") at Warner's-more than any live actor on the lot. Marveled one Wesf Coast cynic: "This is really something new in Hollywood-boy meets ghoul.'' Hollywood's explanation: Dean not only appeals to a "mother complex" among teen-age girls...
TIME Correspondents Poll the Delegations
More Money. Bullock's report is based on a poll of 1,028 households, out of Houston's burgeoning Negro population of 156,000, and of 127 stores patronized by Negroes. He calculates that Houston Negroes spend $168 million a year; they constitute 21.2% of the city population, account for 15% of its purchases. Furthermore, he figures that this spending power is backed by a property investment of $45 million...
Houston's prospering Negroes spend more for housing (mostly rent) than whites, less for clothing and autos. Still, 53.9% of the Negro households in the poll owned autos. (Their preference, in order: Chevrolet, Buick, Ford, Cadillac.) Negro personal savings, proportionately, are double the savings of Houston families in general...