Word: polling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sense of gratitude-which the China crisis has strengthened-that 'Eisenhower has kept us out of war.'" But Lubell noted "a significant change of attitude from two years ago." Today many voters "are looking to Washington for more vigorous leadership." The voters still like Ike (the Gallup poll this week found his popularity down 2% from August but still a healthy 56%). But the feeling is mostly personal, and Lubell found "a deep concern that Eisenhower may no longer be the master of the White House...
...Judson Morehouse. A year ago Morehouse had scribbled down the names of potential candidates: Tom Dewey, onetime Attorney General Herbert Brownell, U.S. Senator Jacob Javits. onetime G.O.P. National Chairman Hall. As a longshot he added Rockefeller, who had been a dependable campaign contributor ($10,000 a year). Morehouse dispatched poll takers across the state to see which name rang bells, was not surprised when Three-Termer Dewey's bonged loudest. But chiming in second place and tolling louder with each sample was Nelson Rockefeller. Realist Morehouse tore up his list, began to pump for Rockefeller. Said...
...results of a Gallup poll announced last week revealed a well-obscured fact about a serious argument between the U.S. and Canada over the question: Should Red China be seated in the U.N.? Most adult Canadians, the poll showed, have only the fuzziest notion of what the argument is all about. A full 11% thought Red China already had a U.N. seat; 41% did not know. Among the minority who did know, 57% favored seating Peking. This meant that in Canada's voting population as a whole, only 27% clearly favor a U.N. seat for the Chinese Communists...
...inaugural offering, the VTW presented the world premiere of William Gerhardi's first play, I Was a King in Babylon. Observers agreed that it was a good production of a bad work. So the VTW decided to let the student body at large guide its next choice. A poll showed that the students favored modern plays over classical ones by 5 to 1, and harbored a definite antipathy to student scripts. As to specific playwrights, the poll yielded the following, in order of preference: Shaw, Shakespeare, O'Neill, Coward, Ibsen, Wilde, Anderson, Odets, Chekhov, and Wilder...
...opposite end of the poll the third group of Southern students at Harvard represent the fair-haired children of the Arkansas Gazette and the Northern press in general. These are the "enlightened" Southerners with opinions born in the South and crystallized upon exposure to Harvard's benign influence...