Word: polle
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Regarded by many as its most notable public service was the Digest Prohibition Poll last spring, which brought it some 700,000 $1 subscriptions. But total Digest circulation was less in the middle of the year than...
Sons of the faculty and administrative officers of the University will be invited to join a swimming class starting next Saturday at 10 o'clock in the new poll, and meeting weekly thereafter, it was announced yesterday by N. W. Fradd, instructor in Physical Education...
...operating with hopeful zest (TIME, April 28 et seq.). Under Wet pressure the House Judiciary Committee held hearings, the first in a decade, on the repeal of the 18th Amendment (TIME, Feb. 10 et seg.). With a fresh Wet Movement obviously on, the Literary Digest conducted a nation-wide poll on Prohibition which showed that out of 4,806,464 persons balloting, only 1,464,098 favored existing Dry conditions whereas 3,342,366 wanted some sort of Change...
Berlin went Red last week. The rest of the nation swung toward Brown.* Everyone admitted, on the morning after, that Republican Germany's sixth election had been her biggest, most expensive, most hysterical. There has been no poll so startling since 1912. when German workmen went Pink for the first time, rebuked Kaiser Wilhelm with a thumping Socialist vote which the War Lord refused to heed...
Jubilant were Berlin's ultra Reds, led by blond, broad-shouldered, blustering Ernst Thalmann. Rolling up 408,642 votes, his Communist party easily topped Berlin's poll. The Socialists were No. 2, with 346,014 ballots?thus proving Berlin the world's most radical capital of a Great Power next to Moscow. National returns showed a Communist gain throughout Germany of 40%, the party jumping from 54 Reichstag seats...