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Harvard went moderately wet in practically every department of the University in the poll conducted yesterday by the CRIMSON--the Faculty joining the rest of the University in voting in favor of modification of the Volstead Act to permit the sale of light wines and beers, with a total vote of 1471 to 1047. It was distinctly a day of victory for the moderates--the out and out wets succeeding in getting even less for their proposition of repeal of the 18th amendment than did the bone drys for their stand of no change in the laws and more rigorous...
Senator Smoot, Chairman of the Finance Committee, has asseverated his opinion that there will be enough votes to pass the bonus over a veto. The best available poll of the Senate indicates that there are 28 Senators who will certainly vote against the bill the second time, with a possibility that they will be joined by three others?making 31 votes. But 33 out of 96 votes are needed by the opponents of the bill to prevent its enactment. Will others change their minds...
...will be taken as soon as the plan is published, on Jan. 7; citizens will be given an opportunity to indicate whether or not they consider the plan to be feasible. Women's organizations, labor organizations, clubs of all kinds, patriotic organizations and churches will assist in taking a poll of the country. Newspapers and magazines?to the number of 5,000 or 6,000, will print ballots and assist in conducting the poll. By Feb. 1 it is hoped that the results will be tabulated...
...Junior poll-watchers, who are expected to be on duty at the designated hour or arrange for a substitute, are as follows...
Gatherem [Lord Rothermere, see TIME, Dec. 3] advised his innumerable readers to vote Liberal; then, as the poll came near, with incomprehensible apologetics he told the electors to do both things favoring the Liberals one day and the Unionists the next...