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...have always placed great reliance on the "Literary Digest" presidential poll," he said, "but this year I don't know. In New Bedford, I understand the Digest shows Roosevelt to have a slight lead, but all our private polls indicate a Landon sweep...
...that sounds like easy money!" said Mr. Funk. "Let me talk it over with some of the boys in the office." After talking it over, Mr. Funk was less enthusiastic. The Digest figures Captain Patterson had challenged did not include New York City, which was yet to be accounted for in the magazine's poll...
Though he still "didn't know of an easier way to make $10,000," if the wager were on the final figures of Digest and News, Mr. Funk felt that "as a matter of policy it would be impossible for the Literary Digest to bet on its' own poll. . . . The magazine takes no sides . . . plays no favorites...
Last July Surgeon General Parran wrote a lengthy article called "Stamp Out Syphilis" which appeared simultaneously in The Reader's Digest and Survey Graphic. Last week the editors of The Reader's Digest bragged: "Discussion [of this article] in conversation everywhere and in the Press of the nation has brought the whole subject into the open for the first time. To date more than 1,500 organizations and individuals have ordered 276,021 reprints of the article for distribution...
...gentleman farmer's life of herds, droves, flocks and bevies, of hunting, fishing and camping. His family estate lies close to Washington. But today he has little time for those avocations, or lor his family of four young sons. Wrote he last summer in his Reader's Digest trumpet call: ''If the eradication of syphilis were to be my one official duty during the next 20 years I should attempt it very confidently with a budget substantially less than that which has been expended during the past 20 years for a single animal disease- bovine tuberculosis...