Word: polls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were sure they could beat him with either of two candidates. One was Colorado Governor William Lee Knous (rhymes with mouse), a lanky, homespun former mining-camp lawyer. If Knous entered the race, the conservative, Republican-tinged Denver Post reported last week (and if the results of a statewide poll held true), 65% of Colorado's voters would vote for a change; only 27% wanted to keep Gene Millikin on. Even if Knous could be sidetracked with a federal judgeship, the Democrats had another odds-on favorite: Denver's Congressman John Albert Carroll, a husky, 48-year...
...people who administer the Marshall Plan in Paris got a shock last week. They had hired a French public opinion expert in July to poll his country on what it thought of American aid, and last week he made his report. According to this poll, most of the French hadn't heard of the Marshall Plan, and those who had didn't particularly like...
Opposing these agencies are well-organized and financed Communist parties in almost every one of the Western countries. These parties, especially strong in France and Italy, are tightly organized on a ward-boss level; their newspapers have huge circulations. And so far, as the ECA poll shows, they have been winning the propaganda war with very little trouble...
Students in the College want an ice rink, according to the results of a Student Council poll taken in the Houses yesterday, and they may get one if the plans of a group of students headed by Robert J. Stern '50 are completed...
...Council also decided to sponsor a poll of the undergraduates today to see how many want an outdoor ice rink on Soldiers Field, and how many would be willing to join an ice skating club to help support it. Robert J. Stern '50 said that an outside group might donate the necessary $2,000 for original construction of the rink during Christmas vacation, and the Athletic Association would maintain the structure...