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...Literary Digest's poll, for this week, records 43 states out of 44 in the wet column, with over two million votes cast. Twenty-three of these states are for complete repeal, and twenty for modification...
...Harvard CRIMSON's poll of student sentiment on the Prohibition question in 14 leading universities, the Literary Digest's national poll now in full swing, and the recent 82-61 vote of the New York Assembly supporting the Cuvillier bill petitioning Congress to call a Constitutional convention to repeal the unlovely Amendment have served, for the first time, to bring together under the same tent definite and compact opinion on the liquor question from three distinct elements in the Republic...
...CRIMSON's poll reveals the interesting fact that 15,000 of the 24,000 students approached drink. And what does this mean? It means, simply, that these 15,000 are not abiding by a law that is offensive to their personal tastes. These figures represent 64 per cent of the total vote cast. An even larger number voted for modification or complete repeal. And the votes came from colleges that are vastly different in size and type...
...Digest poll, as its sponsors had hoped it would, bred sharp Wet-&-Dry controversy. The Wet complaint: their vote had been split between Modification and Repeal, their real strength confused and diminished. The Drys raged more vehemently. Their charges: 1) Wet funds were financing the pool; 2) more ballots had been sent to men than to women; 3) by some inexplicable divination on the part of the poll managers, Wet families had received many ballots, Dry families none. Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals advised a New Jersey audience to vote...
...Digest office, however, would not reveal whether Robert J. Cuddihy. able, amiable, Roman Catholic vice president of Funk & Wagnalls, actual publisher of the Digest and sponsor for its poll, was personally...