Word: polle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...results of last year's Crimson poll indicated, History I was by far the most heavily intored course in the College. This year the course staff has taken several distinct efforts to combat the tutoring menace and to do away with the prevalence of "canned" information...
...France win their war, and 2) to drive Adolf Hitler and Hitlerism from the world. He defined these aims well before World War II began, when many thought that in foretelling the Crisis and its ripening into war, he was whistling for the wind. More eloquent than any poll of the public temper last week was the conclusion of Franklin Roosevelt that he could not prudently restate his ends. Up to last week he had accompanied them with assurances of his hope and belief that the U. S. could stay out of war. Sensitive to a nation sensitized...
...thick were war spectres in committee meetings that the pension ghost could hardly edge in. Chief concerns of the convention were strict neutrality and preparedness. Officially the embargo fight was left to Congress, though a random poll of 423 Legionnaires showed that 66% were opposed to the act as it stands...
Last week FORTUNE published the first (of a series of) findings. Obtained by the FORTUNE SURVEY'S method of scientific sampling, these first results were somewhat experimental (it is harder to calculate what is a scientific cross section of business than to poll members of each age group, geographical group, social group, etc.) Findings on this first attempt...
...similar finding that there is a war-minded U. S. minority was obtained last week by a Gallup poll. Question: "If it looks within the next few months as if England and France might be defeated, should the United States declare war on Germany and send our troops abroad?" Answer...