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With the mailing of 8000 ballots to all the students in Harvard College and the Graduate Schools, the CRIMSON-Literary Digest poll on the Roosevelt "first year" is officially inaugurated today. The poll which is similar to the Digest's nationwide census of the Roosevelt policies, is conducted by the CRIMSON in connection with the Literary Digest in an effort to ascertain the true feeling at Harvard on the workings of the first year of the Roosevelt administration, which has just come to a close...
...evidence that his popularity is not suffering a decline, TIME cites the poll on "the greatest U. S. President" held at Valley Forge Military Academy, in which the students voted 43 for Lincoln, 44 for Washington, 202 for Roosevelt...
Possibly TIME forgot that its Nov. 14, 1932 issue carried the following: ''When Rev. Dr. Enclicott Peabody, headmaster of Groton, discovered that his 184 socialite schoolboys were voting 4-to-1 against Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a 'Grottie' of 1900. he halted their straw poll, ordered politics adjourned...
...merely transferred to court the old fight on whether Weirton Steel had violated the steel code in refusing to recognize the A. F. of L. steel union, forming its own company union, and declining to supply a list of its employes for the National Labor Board to hold a poll on union preference. Promptly the leaders of the A. F. of L. steel union marched to the White House and filed a protest with the President: "Even if this proceeding wins it does not force Weir to deal with our union. "We wish to point out, secondly, that this court...
...held his personal popularity. Without this popularity he would never have been able to execute all his policies. Last week, ever watchful of popular support, the President had one more evidence that it is not yet waning: students of Valley Forge Military Academy at Wayne, Pa., holding a poll on the greatest U. S. President, voted 43 for Abraham Lincoln, 44 for George Washington, 202 for Franklin D. Roosevelt...