Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Compelling Issue. In the end, the President was spurred into action by rising public sentiment for legislation. A recent Gallup poll shows that 68% of the people favor giving free food stamps to the poor. Despite its unhappy confrontation in Los Angeles, the greatest influence on the President was the Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, whose fulltime chairman is South Dakota Democrat George McGovern. The committee's findings had made hunger so compelling a political issue that Nixon ultimately felt it necessary to ignore the economizers and submit his eleventh-hour program...
...similar poll taken among the Masters and dean who had attended the dinner and were available for comment Sunday evening showed no casualties. Deans Watson and Glimp and Masters Dunn and Heimert enjoyed fine health over the weekend...
...informal poll taken among some 40 seniors on Sunday revealed that almost 30 had been sick to a noticeable degree, and all of those sick were certain it was due to the dinner...
George Wallace hoped that his presence in the 1968 elections would deny any candidate an Electoral College majority, leaving him with the decisive votes to name the next President. Before Election Day, according to the Gallup poll, 66% of the nation favored direct presidential elections. By December, the figure had jumped...
...come to resemble a particularly vulgar version of American suburbia, and U.S. spending now accounts for 60% of Okinawa's $644.4 million G.N.P. If the U.S. were to pull out, Okinawa's economy would be severely damaged. The island's businessmen are already pessimistic. A poll last year indicated that 75% of the 200 businessmen questioned felt that U.S. withdrawal would hurt profits...