Word: polle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Creston's nearly 9,000 residents do not consider it "tiny." It's the second largest town in the entire southwestern quarter of Iowa (Council Bluffs the exception) and Crestonians are proud of its up-and-comingness. Crestonman Elmo Roper of FORTUNE Survey needs take no poll to know that. And you'll hear more about Creston if Crestonman Frank Phillips is successful in his present quest for a rich oil pool beneath the famous bluegrass (and corn) fields of this area. Creston even had three daily newspapers when Crestonman Gerald P. Nye was behind this very...
Probably the most interesting question the Survey has thus far put to students is the "ism" problem. On this issue fifty-six per cent voted a preference for Communism over Fascism. The result of this poll may have tremendous repercussions. For, if the new generation maintains its bias toward the extreme. Left, red-baiting will rapidly lose its place as the premier American political sport. Instead of trying to locate the root of all evil in Moscow, the Dies Committees of the future will have to orient their accusing fingers to Berlin or Rome. The "red menace" will become...
...cited "a recent Gallup Poll," "innumerable resolutions of trade associations," "bankers' groups," "newspaper editorials...
...Gallup poll reported that 50% of the U. S. public go to church less often than their parents did; 18% more often; 32% "about the same." Asked whether interest in religion was increasing or decreasing, only 27% of farmers and 29% of small-town residents thought that interest had increased, but 42% of city dwellers thought so. Possible explanation: city folks hear more about the world's troubles-a reason given by many a police for reg turning to the church. According to the poll, 31% of the people listen to church services on the radio. >In the Survey...
President Lowell is honorary chairman of the Boston Committee conducting the poll, and Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government; Frank W. Taussig '79, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Emeritus; and Walter B. Cannon, George Higginson Professor of Physiology are members...