Word: polls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...file of 300 popular and about 1000 classical records serves most of the station's broadcasting needs. The majority of the programs are record shows as a student poll taken last fall showed that listeners favored classical and popular music to "live" shows or drama workshop features...
...Bureau of the Census announced that one out of every eight married persons in the U.S. has been married more than once. The Gallup poll reported that only 49% of U.S. husbands & wives would remarry their present partners if they had the chance of starting over again...
...asked the poll, was the greatest statesman in all history? As the German weekly, Der Spiegel (literally The Mirror), totted up the returns last week, they provided an enlightening glimpse into that enigma, the collective German mind. Though they may have been chastened, the Germans had lost none of their admiration for strong men. Top place (with 3,937 out of 8,500 votes) went to Germany's first Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who once bragged that the great problems of history are solved by blood & iron. Next, with 773 votes, came Winston Churchill, who had helped to break...
...real meat of the poll, solemn re-educators of the Germans had to look farther down, where the republic's appeasing Gustav Stresemann, with 580 votes, just nosed out Adolf Hitler, who got 513. The Germans apparently did not think much of the U.S.'s greats. Washington and Lincoln barely won honorable mention, and the late President Roosevelt got only 109 votes-63 less than Stalin, and just enough to tie him for ninth place with France's 17th Century Cardinal Richelieu...
Reynolds stated that he believed the Council's poll did not explore the issues adequately, it was learned...