Word: polle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Released last week by Dr. George Gallup's American Institute of Public Opinion were the results of a poll on the question: "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Mrs. Roosevelt has conducted herself as 'First Lady?' " Her husband was approved by 58% of the voters in a recent Gallup poll (and by 62% of the major party voters in the 1936 election). Mrs. Roosevelt won approval from 67%. Unlike her husband she got a majority of favorable votes in the upper income group...
...politician, Mrs. Bethune was in her glory last week. To her second National Conference on Problems of the Negro & Negro Youth came 125 delegates to urge abolition of poll taxes, attack discrimination against Negroes in the Army & Navy, TVA, Federal Housing Administration. To address the convention, in the Department of Labor auditorium, came Mrs. Bethune's friend, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. Speaking as an "individual," Mrs. Roosevelt urged passage of the Anti-Lynching Bill which Southern Senators filibustered to death last year...
More than two hundred names were affixed to a petition demanding a marriage course; that, in itself, means nothing. It is possible to get two hundred students to sign anything, except possibly a Crimson poll. But a course on marriage has its serious aspects. Harvard has already experimented in this field with the Birth Control hoax and a course called Hygiene I. The former was discontinued because the doors were locked, the latter because the students seemed to be well aware of the purely sexual problems involved. Recently several institutions instituted subjects dealing with the sociological elements of marriage...
AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 8--Communist, socialist, and fascist propaganda among college students is being felt mainly in the East Central and Middle Atlantic states as shown by a nation-wide poll taken by the Student Opinion Surveys of America...
...student Opinion Surveys of America for the first time point out what the collegians have to say in all sections of the country. Although when the results are taken nationally one student in every ten says there has been some attempt to influence him, the poll reveals that student bodies in the West and South are very seldom approached with such propaganda...