Word: polling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guest was a pollster who had just completed a postcard survey, ordered by De Sapio, as to the presidential preferences of Democratic voters in New York state. De Sapio places great stock in his polls, used them to confirm his choices of Robert Wagner (over Vincent Impellitteri) for mayor of New York City in 1953, and of Harriman (over Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.) for governor in 1954. Says De Sapio: "You can't impose your will on the people any more. If they select the candidate in a poll, they'll elect him." De Sapio's surveys...
...Long Row to Hoe. For a leader of Tammany to be taking postcard surveys like a sort of political science professor must set the bones of Boss Tweed and Dick Croker to rattling about in their coffins. But the public-opinion poll is only one of the many ways in which Tammany Hall, under De Sapio. has changed, is changing, and will continue to change...
...PRESIDENCY To Be or Not Dwight D. Eisenhower was at a pinnacle of his popularity. A Gallup poll, the first to be taken since the Geneva Conference at the Summit, showed that nearly eight out of ten Americans-more than ever before-approved of the way the President was doing his job. The news brought joy to Republican hearts and an inevitable renewal of the big question: Will Ike run again in 1956? The rumors, speculations, and informed guesses buzzed through sweltering Washington last week. In the midst of them, Ike was uncomfortably enigmatic-a role he thoroughly dislikes...
Furthermore, an increasing number of businessmen were thinking of adding to their inventories, partly because of better business and partly because of the prospect of higher prices. Dun & Bradstreet reported that 35% of the businessmen questioned in a poll planned to carry bigger inventories (compared to 29% last April). The Department of Commerce noted that at the end of May, dollar value of manufacturers' inventories totaled $43.6 billion, a one-month gain of $300 million...
...agreed that one step toward consistent safety would be the elimination of the virulent Mahoney strain of virus. (This would certainly take months, possibly years.) By nose count, the Salk program car ried again. When Chairman Priest got Yale's Professor John R. Paul (School of Medicine) to poll the panel of 15 experts, the result was 8 to 3 in favor of going on with Salk inoculations, and four abstentions (including Dr. Salk himself). Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele hurried forward with a statement reaffirming his endorsement of continued manufacture and vaccination. Nonetheless, the question...