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...Gold Coasters opened the University's straw vote season yesterday with a trial poll, sponsored by the House Committee. Wendell Willkie, Republican nominee for President, finished first by the margin of 110 to 93, or 51.4 per cent to 43.4 per cent for Roosevelt. Norman thomas, Socialist candidate, received 3.75 per cent of the total vote with eight ballots, and Roger Babson and Charles A. Lindbergh both received votes. Over 80 per cent of the House participated in the poll...
Superintendent of Elections William E. Sewell, searching for evidence of ballot-box stuffing and illegal voting in Hudson County, demanded to see the County's poll books for the last four elections, so that he could compare the signatures of voters with signatures in his registration books. Hudson County declined to surrender them. Sewell threatened to go to court. Word came from Hudson County that the books had been burned. Later, 1938 and 1939 records were grudgingly produced...
...Gallup poll last fortnight showed 58% of Kentucky's voters for Franklin Roosevelt. Editor Agar, after much soul-searching, spoke himself for Roosevelt too, and the Courier-Journal (like the Roosevelt-hating St. Louis Post-Dispatch last month) bought a page in the New York Times to announce its stand...
...P.B.H. poll was mailed out to all incoming Freshman late in the summer as part of a questionnaire to obtain information on prospective social service workers...
Aside from the major professional fields, a wide scattering of less popular ones were represented in the poll. Both chemical engineering and writing registered four votes, and accountancy, advertising, music, governmental service, and banking each rated two. One desperate freshman made known his choice as "anything...