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Final returns in the Collier's straw vote showed (in round numbers...
More significant than the Collier's straw vote is a poll just taken by The Literary Digest. Granting (with most political vaticinations) that President Harding will be renominated by the Republicans, The Digest took a poll of leading Democratic politicians to see whom they favored for the Democratic nominations. They were asked to pick a first, second and third choice...
...stage of 164,514 ballots, the straw vote taken by Collier's Weekly for Presidential preferences, showed the following results in round numbers...
...former friend and brought back to France and his original identity−sounds somewhat like the skeleton for an ephillipsop-penheim spine-shocker. But again, as in Suzanne and the Pacific, the style is the book−as sparkling, unique and gracile as Venetian glass. The translation by Louise Collier Willcox is fairly adequate though sometimes erratic. SINBAD−C. Kay Scott-Seltzer ($2.00). Greenwich Village−studio-parties− pseudo-intellectuals whose amatory affairs are as tangled as a pile of jackstraws−burbles about Art−neuroses and inhibitions−take-offs on prominent Village characters, et cetera...
...Digest's famous polls on the presidency and on prohibition were of distinct value. The value was due to the tremendous scope of the polls and to the fact that they were taken at "psychological moments." Collier's poll is more properly a "stunt,' signifying?whatever editorial writers feel like signifying...