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This was an even worse defeat for the Democrats than the landslide poured in two days ago by the balloting of 2000 undergraduates. For the students supported Bacon by the comparatively small margin of 7-1 and repudiated the New Deal by less than 2-1. Opinion in the "brain trust" part of the University has apparently swung even further into the ranks of conservatism than the sentiments of their pupils...
Like the student group this represents a reversal of feeling on the part of the Faculty as far as the Washington Administration is concerned. By a narrow margin the professorial element was willing to give the New Deal a try last June. But yesterday the record stood 141 "no's" on the question "Do you feel that the policies of the Roosevelt Administration offer a satisfactory method to Recovery"? to 50 "yes" votes. Several men refused to make a decision and marked their ballots...
...conducted a second and smaller vote to see if the summer's industrial unrest has changed public opinion. According to this follow-up poll, which has not been attempted in any of the colleges, the nation as a whole still supports President Roosevelt, but by a much smaller margin than formerly...
...answer is probably "no." Harvard was a little ahead of Bates in every department, but the margin of difference was unpleasantly small. After the first quarter, in which both touchdowns were scored, the boys from Maine did things that no opening game opponent is supposed to do. In the last half Bates made 139 yards and picked up seven first downs...
Last year the Oriental haggle began with a ridiculous Japanese bid of 50 million gold yen,† offered through the Manchukuo Government. Russia countered with an asking price of 250,000,000 rubles. By fits and starts the margin narrowed, between intervals of "deadlock," to a bid of 150,000,000 yen, an asked of 190,000,000 gold rubles. Last week the semi-official Rengo News Agency announced that the agreed price for the Chinese Eastern was 170,000,000 yen ($50,728,000 Roosevelt), plus Soviet Russia's recognition of Manchukuo...