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Contemptuous also was John Lewis last week when asked what he thought about an American Institute of Public Opinion poll showing A. F. of L. favored over C.I.O. 2-to-1. In the manner of the late William ("Public-be-damned") Vanderbilt, Mr. Lewis tossed his mane and snapped: "If the public wants to approve of C.I.O., it can; if the public doesn't want to approve...
Taft reelected President in University poll--Wilson obtained second place while Roosevelt comes in third...
Kirkland House won Strauss Trophy with better managing and keener spirit than other Houses. Allen leads juniors in Student Council poll; Harding wins Sophomore election...
...popular thing these days is the filling out of questionnaires. Harvard undergraduates gave their usual horse laugh recently when Princeton '37 came through with the customary poll for Most Handsome and Did Most for Princeton. Now, however the business strikes closer home. Harvard's Class of 1927 in its Decennial Report has just made out and published a questionnaire of sixty-nine not particularly significant queries. One member has made a digest and written an article, "Was It Worth White?" which he probably thinks a good sequel to Mr. Tunis's masterpiece...
...gift of gabble. And for every keen sentence he lets them blurt, he makes them babble a tedious paragraph. Star-Begotten is a short book but spots in it seem very long. His scientists may be angels in the laboratory or operating room but often they talk like poor Poll. Says one of them: "In a fools' world sane men will have a bad time anyhow; but they can help wind up the world of fools even if they cannot hope to see it out." Suggested methods of winding it up: sabotage, political assassinations. But when...