Word: polle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Creighton University the Crimson forces lost the debate, speaking on the Harvard Debating Council Plan, although there was a substantial vote in their favor. At Loyola University debating "Complete Disarmament" the two judges split and the deciding vote was left to the audience. Ballots for this poll are still coming in, and as yet no result has been reached. Alonzo Stagg, Chicago football coach was there to ask about the efficiency of the plan. Since Rockford College is solely for women the Harvard speakers matched arguments with a team of women in a no-decision encounter...
...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...