Word: polle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Voters balloted last Sunday on 16,000 candidates who sought 3,500 local offices in the cantons of France. As usual no candidate won in hundreds of constituencies, and in these final balloting takes place next Sunday. Returns from the first poll gave moderate bourgeois Premier Camille Chautemps, whose Radical Socialist Party is ludicrously misnamed, every reason to think that the French people have not swung to either extreme since they last voted in 1936, but favor the Popular Front Cabinet as its policies were recently revised and made less radical (TIME, Oct. 11). So far as could be judged...
...meanwhile a poll of 57,599 St. Louis cinemagoers, completed last week, indicated that at least the citizens of the nation's seventh city still like "duals," by the overwhelming count of 7 to 3. The questionnaire's sponsors, Fanchon & Marco, the potent firm which controls 31 St. Louis theatres, polled their audiences ten days. Other preferences of this quintessentially American city: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple. Only 1,609 St. Louis fans admitted that they liked gangster films...
Harvard is tied for third in the favor of Princeton Freshmen as far as outside colleges are concerned. Reports state that in the annual poll of the class Yale ranked tops with 30 votes, Williams had 50, and Dartmouth, Harvard and Vassar scored 30 each...
Senator Barkley bit through a pipestem while waiting for the results of the Senate's poll on a new leader. He slid through, score 38-37. From his eminence as President Roosevelt's "good friend Alben," the new Leader can look back on a career very American: birth in a log cabin, campaigning on a mule for an early prosecuting attorneyship, learning law in a picturesque law office, finally soliciting votes by way of horse and buggy to get to Washington in 1912. There he has remained, leaving the House for the Senate...
Senator Barkley bit through a pipestem while waiting for the results of the Senate's poll on a new leader. He slid through score 38-37. From his eminence as President Roosevelt's "good friend Alben," the new Leader can look back on a career very American: birth in a log cabin, campaigning on a mule for an early prosecuting attorneyship, learning law in a picturesque law office, finally soliciting votes by way of horse and buggy to get to Washington in 1912. There he has remained, leaving the House for the Senate...