Word: polle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fears the influence of politics. Nevertheless, in the past century every civilized government in the world has enormously increased its aid to the ill. And a strong current in favor of socialized medicine runs through recent writings of physicians on both sides of the Atlantic. Last week a Gallup poll on voluntary health insurance indicated that some 25,000,000 persons largely in the group earning over $980 a year would be willing to pay $3 a month for complete medical and hospital care. Only representative poll taken among doctors was last year when Modern Medicine asked its readership whether...
...members of the Baseball Writers Association who participated in the poll, 235 of them voted for Sisler. Collins, vice-president-treasurer of the Boston Red Sox, received 213 votes and the late Keeler of "hit 'em where they aint" fame barely squeezed in. He was picked by 207 writers, one more than the 75 per cent total, or 206, necessary for election this year...
...best pictures of 1938, as selected by Film Daily's annual poll of 536 newspaper, syndicate and magazine critics: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; You Can't Take It with You; Alexander's Ragtime Band; Boys Town; Marie Antoinette; In Old Chicago; The Adventures of Robin Hood; The Citadel; Love Finds Andy Hardy; Hurricane...
...poll to name the most reaction ary U. S. college president, Colgate's burly George Barton Cutten would be likely to win hands down. Dr. Cutten boasts that he is a rugged individualist and last year declared that God also "is a reactionary...
...partisanship in the Spanish war, the Pope followed the advice of his Spanish bishops. But a majority of U. S. Catholics, according to a recent Gallup poll, do not see eye to eye with the Holy Father and the Spanish hierarchy. The Gallup figures: 58% of Catholics who take sides favor Franco, about 33% of all Catholics sympathize with neither side; thus, Franco partisans number only some 38% of U. S. Catholics, and in the general population they are even fewer...