Word: twohey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were named goats because of their head-on political tactics; Shannonites were called rabbits because of their ability to pop up out of the bushes after the battle was over. †The editorial line-up of the nation's newspapers on election eve, according to the James S. Twohey Associates poll: 4% across the board for the Democrats; 11% for local Democrats whom they considered were not New Dealers; 85% pro-Republican. F.D.R.'s lowest pre-election newspaper support (in 1940): 22% pro; 7% on the fence; 71% for the Republicans...
...support for its foreign policy. This may have been because of understanding, misunderstanding or indifference. But coincident with a lively interest in the subject, press approval of Administration foreign policy has declined faster than stocks in a Wall Street crash-from 80% support to 20%. As recorded by the Twohey Analysis of Newspaper Opinion, the chief objections...
Undoubtedly the President had not seen a survey of press handling of the women's auxiliary services. Conducted by the Twohey Weekly Analysis of Newspaper Opinion, it found: 1) one-third of the press branded the comments on WAAC immorality as vicious, lying propaganda; 2) another third was all for legislation to permit the WAVES to serve overseas; 3) the rest was merely commendatory...
Three weeks ago, according to James S. Twohey's survey of newspaper opinion, 79% of U.S. editors demanded that the 40-hour week be scrapped for the duration. Some editors even came out simultaneously for a profit incentive for industry while arguing that, for labor, patriotism should be incentive enough. For every half-dozen editorials declaring that labor must make sacrifices, only one said that all citizens must share the load alike...
Just before the U.S. press began to sing a diapason of approval for the U.S. declaration of war-in the week that closed the night before Pearl Harbor-interventionist sentiment in the press had slumped to its lowest point since last spring. According to the survey of James S. Twohey Associates it stood at 54%-as against 84% eleven weeks earlier...