Word: polle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Britain and France. Makers of guns, bombs, shells, gas, powder, etc. could have done the same had they had shipments to make.* Franklin Roosevelt was pleased to let this state of affairs sink in on Congress and the U. S. people (82% of whom in a Gallup poll blamed Hitler for the war). He then obeyed Congress, recognized that war prevailed, embargoed exports of arms, munitions and materials of war to belligerents in conformity with the Neutrality Act of 1937. U. S. citizens had a view of statutory Neutrality in action...
...Grover Whalen will have about 24,000,000 admissions by the Fair's close next October 30-a little better than one-third his prediction. With luck, attendance might increase in the cooler autumn months, total 32,000,000 at season's end. Last March a Gallup poll said 13,000,000 people planned to attend the Fair, 19,000,000 hoped they could. Last week another poll showed that: 1) two-thirds of the planners had made 2.3 visits apiece to the Fair; 2) the remaining third were going this fall; 3) the hopers were still hoping...
...nationwide Gallup poll showed that, since June, Paul V. McNutt had climbed from a tie for fifth into second place among Democratic choices for the Presidency (ex Franklin Roosevelt). The standings: Garner 46%, McNutt 13%, Hull and Farley 12%, Hopkins and Murphy...
...good President." This statement-of-the-week was made by Ohio's Governor John William Bricker, who announced at Columbus that he will not campaign to be Ohio's favorite Republican son next year. Senator Taft: "I appreciate his kind words." In last week's Gallup poll on candidates preferred ahead of Franklin Roosevelt, Mr. Taft's name did not appear among the first eleven Republicans. Ahead of him were Dewey, Vandenberg, LaGuardia, Borah, Hoover, Landon...
...Gallup poll, 38% of those asked said they would vote Franklin Roosevelt a third term, 40% said they would vote against him, 22% didn't know, said it depended on the other candidate. Pollster Gallup computed the 22%-balance wheel the 1940 election-at 10,000,000 U. S. voters now undecided...