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Faint rumblings blazing the way to the political thunder of 1932 will be board in University circles today when Harvard Law School men ballot on the prohibition question and the desirability of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York for president. It is doubtful that prohibition voting at this late day will be significant in any other way than that the legal minds which framed the four questions are peculiarly weak in their knowledge of the constitutional obstacles in the way of repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment...
...once president of the CRIMSON, but because the man, the principles and issues which he represents, and the surrounding political atmosphere make him the most logical choice. Repeal of prohibition and "Roosevelt for President" are not interchangeable terms, though Al Smith, Rasokob and the intangible organization sponsoring today's ballot would have it so. Roosevelt as a man, which embraces his experiences, his background and his ideals, is the type now particularly appealing to America. The three issues for which he stands, a systematic curb on the water-power, trusts systematic planning for revival of business and intelligent steps...
...questions asked on the ballot are as follows: 1. Do you favor a change in the existing prohibition law? 2. Do you favor repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment? 3. Do you favor modification of the Eighteenth Amendment? 4. Do you believe Congressional action through a change of the Volstead Act would be legal and effective? 5. Do you favor the presidential nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt? Desks for voting will be stationed in Langdell and Austin Halls and the ballots will be signed...
...ballot includes seven questions, some of which ask what percentage of disarmament is favored if all nations join in similar reductions, to what an extent the United States should take the initiative in calling all nations to reduce armaments, and whether the United States should set an example to other nations by reducing our expenditures upon armaments...
Other questions bearing more directly on college interests question whether compulsory military training in colleges should or should not be abolished. The last question asks whether the student signing the ballot has had any military training. The purpose of the latter question is to sound student opinion on the Act of Congress making military training in all state universities obligatory...