Word: polle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Embarrassed in the primaries because of lack of funds and poor organization, Maguire last night appealed for more student canvassers and poll workers...
...Gallup poll similarly reported: 1) sentiment that the U. S. should fight Germany, if the Allies appear to be losing, dropped from 44% in the first week in September to 29% last week; 2) 84% in the U. S. want the Allies to win; 3) 62% believe the U. S. should do everything possible to aid the Allies "short of war"; 4) 60% believe the arms embargo should be repealed...
Jews, left-wingers and some Catholics denounced Father Coughlin and his assertions, but his radio audience began to mount. During the winter, a Gallup poll indicated that he had 4,500,000 steady listeners, 15,000,000 occasional ones. At a Nazi Bund rally in Manhattan, Father Coughlin's name drew as many cheers as Hitler's. By summertime, Coughlinites in the East were organized and articulate enough to plan a parade into the "Jewish-Communist" enemy's territory, Manhattan's Union Square. Father Coughlin called them off. There were indications that he knew...
...folks think he has "gone national." This week Mr. Maverick got into his worst trouble yet. Along with a local official and a former business agent of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, he was indicted by a Bexar County grand jury charged with using union contributions to pay poll taxes for some of his Labor voters...
Having had fun writing their report, the authors of Guide to Courses announced that a move was afoot to publish a bigger & better one, on the scale of the university catalogue, ratings to be based on a general student poll. This week the daily Californian began to publish results of such a poll, conducted by German Professor Franz Schneider (no rating). Said Guide to Courses: "Such student-controlled criticism might help the teaching staff considerably...