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Collier's, subtitled " The National Weekly," has sent out an army of 1,000 canvassers. These canvassers visit the homes of all subscribers to the magazine, said to number 250,000. They are taking a poll on first choice for a successor to President Harding, and, incidentally, they are drumming up trade...
...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...
...poll-watchers...
Result of a poll of the National Council of the National Economic League: 1) Should the United States enter the League of Nations with such reservations as may be acceptable to the Government of the United States? Yes-890. No-327. 2) Should the United States join in supporting the World Court? Yes-1,173. No-51. 3) Should the United States promote the holding of an international economic conference ? Yes-937. No-237. 4) Scale down the war debts owed to the U. S. ? Yes-625. No- 477. 5) Is France justified in the Ruhr...
...written around this theme are no exaggeration of the fact. Men will continue to be forced to marry, or women not to marry, if they are to win their inheritance. Nevada will continue to have as many Rhodes Scholars as New York. Cat-sanitariums and homes for eeble-minded poll-parrots will continue to prosper, while "humanitarian" institutions in the literal sense of the word are suffering from want of funds. This is a part of the heritage of Past to Present...