Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members) Los Angeles County Medical Association hired a survey firm recently to find out what people think about doctors. Detailed interviews with 309 people (plus a chosen "influence group" of 51 community leaders) produced some revealing results, released last week...
Last week Yarmolinsky made public his findings in 50 of the cases, selected as typical samplings of the entire survey. The reports are necessarily incomplete, since the Government's files were not made available to Yarmolinsky's lawyer-interviewers. To atone for this defect, Yarmolinsky made a special effort to rely on such documentary evidence as the written charges, the written responses of the employees under investigation, and the transcripts of the hearings furnished to the employees. As such, the Yarmolinsky report affords an Orwellian glimpse behind the closed doors of the security program. Some of the case...
...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...
...word written than your assertion that ";water has always been the limiting factor to the desert's growth" . . . When federal western reclamation was authorized in 1902, some critics labeled it unnecessary, impractical and visionary ... I heard the same cries of "visionary" and "impractical" when I was on the . .. survey party which fixed the location of Hoover Dam in 1929. The growth and prosperity of the Imperial, Yuma and Coachella Valleys and metropolitan southern California would not have been possible without this dam . . . Now history is repeating itself...
...England, a Regional Survey (Tues. 10:30 p.m., NBC). Documentary on "Money in New England...