Word: polle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London affiliate of the Gallup poll found opinion in the British Isles 57% "satisfied" with the Chamberlain foreign policy. Simultaneously U. S. citizens were Galluped in the same direction, favored the Prime Minister by 59%, although only 30% thought the Chamberlain "peace" permanent...
...Memphis World (Negro daily) completed its poll to elect the "Mayor of Beale Street." Winner: Matthew Thornton, mail carrier, with 12,000 out of 33,000 votes cast. Runner-up: Eddie Hayes, undertaker, 9,000. Salary: none. Duties: greeting distinguished visitors to "the street where the blues began...
...sales boomed, and the grateful citizens of Crystal City, Texas, U.S. spinach-raising centre, put up a Popeye statue. Three years ago, when Segar's comic strip appeared in. over 500 newspapers in the U.S. and 20 foreign countries, Popeye nosed out Mickey Mouse in a nationwide poll as the most popular comic-strip character. Some of the strip's phrases which have passed into the language: "goon" (a homely person, or one with a hangover), "jeep" (a girl who demands an expensive good time), "I yam what...
...that devised by the Conway Committee for the Big Board, including paid president, public representation, democratic committee rule. This time SEC Chairman Douglas commented: "Forthright and realistic." Curb members, who are voting officially this week, showed their sentiments by accepting the plan 275-to-1 in a straw poll which was still incomplete at week...
...architects, each pair designed to meet the needs and income of an actual U. S. family. By this presentation LIFE hoped: 1) to inform its readers of how easily any family earning from $2,000 to $10,000 a year can build an efficient, pleasant home; 2) to poll its readers on the relative popularity of the two types of home building...