Word: ropers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conducted for TIME, under the supervision of Elmo Roper, by local survey organizations in Britain, France, Sweden, Switzerland and Italy. U.S. military government authorities made available the results of a comparable survey in the U.S. Zone of Germany...
...compared with 86% of U.S. adults who have heard of the Marshall Plan (according to a current Roper Survey), the international survey found the following numbers familiar with the plan abroad: France, 90%; Sweden, 85%; Britain and Switzerland, 80%; Italy, 74%; U.S. Zone of Germany...
...weekly newspaper column, "What People Are Thinking," Elmo Roper usually gives the facts about his public-opinion polls. This week he thought the time had come to scotch the story about a poll he never made. He wrote...
This is about a poll which was recently taken by Rumor-not by Roper...
From the Communist People's World in San Francisco, the elusive rumor about Roper's "secret" poll on Wallace for Luce jumped across the desk of Walter Winchell, who reported that Mr. Luce's poll (he didn't say Roper did it) showed Wallace to have 15,000,000 votes. . . . From Mr. Winchell's Broadway column, the rumor fell back again into the Communist press . . . where it was reported that it was reliably reported that Roper had done the poll on Wallace for Luce, and when Luce saw the results he told Roper...