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Starting off with a lucid explanation of why the editors choose to remain anonymous, the sensational publication soon dips into discussions of events of world-shaking importance. The first feature article, signed by that world-renowned authority Max, deals witheringly with the Literary Digest Peace Poll. As we turn the pages, the next story for little ones is signed, not as one would expect, by Leon or Butch, but by that prince of good follows, John, Both of these stories are of the most penetrating acumen...
...fashioned opinions of Karl Marx and Nikolai Lenin no dictatorship could count on getting enough votes if the ballot were secret. This fallacy Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini have exploded with secret ballot after secret ballot in 'which they always poll better than 90%. Last week Joseph Stalin decided that it will now be all right for the Soviet Union to have secret ballots...
Most college students, the recent Literary Digest poll indicates, would not engage in an invasion of the territory of another nation, but would take part in a "defensive war." A fine but altogether baseless, distinction apparently still exists in semi-academic circles between these two types of armed conflict. Liberty, the home, and the loved ones remain linked in imagination, with chivalrous sorties against brutal...
...some $400 a month for the service and he divided it among his associates and agents. Soon Campus Publicity Service began to get new accounts. It began also to get outside attention. The New Republic branded it a whispering bureau. The four owners were reported to be planning a poll of student preferences with the results guaranteed to be favorable to the advertisers who sponsored it. Last week the owners hotly denied that they harbored any such plan, pointed out that their work was all open & aboveboard, that college authorities had given their approval...
...York, Jan. 26--If the United States were to invade the borders of another country, 1,968 Harvard students would refuse to fight while 583 would take up arms for their country, the results of the College Peace Poll, conducted by the Literary Digest and the Association of College Editors showed today...