Word: polle
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Prohibition poll conducted by the Literary Digest, opinion-collecting weekly, grew top heavy last week with Wet votes. More than two million ballots were tabulated as follows...
...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...
...convention drew to a close it was announced that next year's session would be held in Montreal. Followed a low buzzing sound, then scattered professorial applause, then thunderous cheering. Commented one smiling member: "Such a demonstration is more . . . convincing than a poll on prohibition...
...Adrian, Mich., a queen bee crawled into the honeycomb radiator of Clifford Poll's automobile. Presently a flock of worker bees came after the queen bee, also crawled into the radiator. Clifford Poll pried the queen bee loose with a screw driver, made her fly away. Presently, the workers crawled out of the radiator, buzzed after their queen...