Word: polle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joseph Patrick Kennedy, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, got credit for having activated Neville Chamberlain's negotiations in Paris which found a partial answer to the question. Nowhere were people more horrified at Adolf Hitler's pogrom than in Britain. A poll showed that more than seven Britons out of ten, while sympathetic to Chamberlain, considered the Nazi terror a bar to Chamberlain's "appeasing" relations with the Reich...
...field, Professor Frankfurter seems clearly in the lead, and the recent poll of the American Bar showing him to be the overwhelming choice of the lawyers of the country, certainly did not hurt his chances. The strongest thing that might keep Mr. Frankfurter from the Supreme Court, is his own desire to stay in his present position. He has long felt that the weakest part of fur Government was our great lack of able public servants, and in recent years he has single-handed filled some of the most important positions in Washington with brilliant men whom he feels...
...nonchalantly added this year's trophy to two others he has at home. Most valuable in 1932 and 1933 (when he was with the Athletics), Slugger Foxx, who was last year considered a has-been, last week became the first three-time No. 1 man since the poll was started...
...Will Saltonstall Landis on top of Curley like a Bushnell of Wood," was the first question I asked the conductor on the subway last night. "The Democratic party," the conductor answered as he took my dime, "will poll a heavy vote in South Carolina, Georgie, Florida, Alabama, and Texas. The situation is not clear in some other states...
...British poll of public opinion by the Gallup method last week, 85% of Britons queried were against return of any former German colonies to the Reich, and 78% answered "Yes" to the question Would you rather fight than hand them back...