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...Polling New York City and State, the New York News fortnight ago reported that 10,771 people approached by News representatives at home and in the street were going to vote for Franklin Roosevelt Nov. 3 as compared with 6,775 who favored Alf Landon for President. Same day the Literary Digest's national Presidential straw vote revealed that in New York State 99,228 voters, telephone-subscribers and club members were for Landon, 34,120 for Roosevelt. When he saw this discrepancy, the News's energetic Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson summoned an editor...
...Funk. "Let me talk it over with some of the boys in the office." After talking it over, Mr. Funk was less enthusiastic. The Digest figures Captain Patterson had challenged did not include New York City, which was yet to be accounted for in the magazine's poll...
...still "didn't know of an easier way to make $10,000," if the wager were on the final figures of Digest and News, Mr. Funk felt that "as a matter of policy it would be impossible for the Literary Digest to bet on its' own poll. . . . The magazine takes no sides . . . plays no favorites...
...butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker joined whole heartedly with the barber, the secondhand man, the House waitresses and biddies in the latest CRIMSON presidential poll. Roosevelt led Landon by 321 to 268 and was ahead throughout, but it was not until the last vote was counted that third place was decided. The result was that Colonel Charles R. Apted '09 ran hand in hand with Communist Browder and Union Lemke, each garnering 13 votes...
William A. Kirstein '38 of the executive board of the Harvard Roosevelt Club said "We are entirely satisfied with the poll. A conclusion, if any is to be drawn, is entirely favorable to the liberal cause for which Franklin D. Roosevelt stands." No comment was made at the Democratic State Committee...