Antedating of "Pollster"

[Fred Shapiro]

pollster (OED 1939 Oct.)

1939 _Time_ 22 May  Dr. George Horace Gallup, punditical pollster of
public opinion, last week received at his home in Princeton, N.J. a
postcard asking him to choose among the ten leading Presidential
candidates.

Fred Shapiro


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