Word: polle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty thousand of his fellow citizens thought Wonderboy Smith could boot old Mayor Angelo Rossi out of his job, and signed a petition asking him to try. A good many others thought he would be easy to beat. Smart Paul Smith had a private poll taken and convinced himself he had a chance. Three hundred and fifty-six people who work for the Chronicle signed another petition begging him to stay on. So the 30-year-old, pint-size, freckle-faced boss of Mark Twain's and Bret Harte's paper decided to stick...
...Gallup poll revealed that 51% of those voting (less in New England and the West, more in the South and Mid-Atlantic) think President & Mrs. Roosevelt should return the visit of King George & Queen Elizabeth...
...Motion Picture Herald's exhibitors' Poll, after Shirley Temple, Clark Gable...
...Most polls of the radio audience are concerned mainly with who is selling the most what to whom. Radio Guide's is different. For the last six years, Radio Guide has polled its weekly fan circulation and friends to find out which radio personalities make the deepest and most enduring impression on listeners. This year 750,000 ballots were clipped from the magazine between April 15 and May 31 and mailed to its offices in Chicago. Last week the poll was tabulated. The choices...
...mannerisms poor, poise fair. "Notably inept at speech-making," Senator Taft is marked down nevertheless as a "phenomenon of the politico-radio world." Reason: after his series of 13 radio debates with witty Congressman T. V. Smith, a radio veteran, on New Deal policies early this year, a Gallup Poll totted the score thus: Taft 66%, Smith 34%. Explanation: "He speaks a homely common sense with a sincerity that makes people listen to him anyway...