Word: polling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest political contradiction of the 1950s lies in the continued top-drawer popularity of President Eisenhower and the sad-sag standing of his Republican Party. Last week the Gallup poll, just finished with a survey showing the G.O.P. at an alltime low of 41% (TIME, June 1), broke down the results into job groups. The answers were enough to furrow any Republican brow, including Dwight Eisenhower's. They showed that the G.O.P. not only has failed to make significant inroads in groups where it was weakest, but has suffered disastrously in groups it must win strongly...
...handled in the coal fields and steelworks of the Ruhr. In Paris four European airlines-Air France, Alitalia, Belgium's Sabena and West Germany's Lufthansa-announced plans to integrate their schedules, maintenance and foreign-sales organizations under the name "Air Union." And in a West German poll, only 37% of the citizens questioned by the Gallup-like "EMNID" Institute were anxious to see Germany remain a sovereign state; the solid majority (52%) favored membership in a European union...
...time the U.S. Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee sat down to begin hearings on the confirmation of Lewis L. Strauss, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and one of the ablest and thorniest figures in U.S. public life, as Secretary of Commerce. At that time an informal poll of the committee members showed that Strauss would win committee approval by a vote of 14-3. Last week, two months and 1,739 rancorous pages of testimony later, Strauss finally did win the committee's approval-by a cliffhanging vote of 9-8 (the squeaking majority came from...
...recession, has bounced back to its highest point since the summer of 1957, when Ike was pushing hard on his atoms-for-peace plan. In reply to its standard question ("Do you approve or disapprove of the way Eisenhower is handling his job as President?"), the Gallup poll last week reported new figures...
Following the publication of the survey, the A.M.A. strongly criticized the use of "pep pills" in any sort of contest. The nationwide poll showed, however, that only one per cent of coaches administer such drugs to their athletes...