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Arkansas had the distinction of carrying Repeal around the turn and into the homestretch. Its vote was also about 3-to-2. Drys charged that Wets had paid the poll taxes of indigent citizens in return for their votes. After the balloting the Attorney General warned that Arkansas, under State law, was still "as dry as a camel's tonsils...
...election day Nazi pressure forced a vote approximating 80% of all male & female Germans above 24 years of age who held Protestant baptismal certificates. Thousands of German Protestants who had ceased to be regular churchgoers trudged fearfully to the polls. Early election returns seemed to indicate a Nazi victory by two-thirds or more of the poll. Jubilant, Rev. Ludwig Müller, styled last week "Chancellor Hitler's Plenipotentiary in Protestant Affairs," hailed as a certainty that the church elders elected last week will vote to create the Evangelical Church of the German Nation. "This is a miracle...
...interesting sidelight to the poll, which has been carried out in hundreds of colleges, is the statement of the Socialistic Club and the National Student League, in giving its own interpretation of "war", "that the term 'war' in the pledge refers to the familiar type of capitalist war, and not to a possible class war which may be forced upon us by the defenders of capitalism". -- Polity...
Although Professor Gideonse, in commenting on the poll, was inclined to discount the importance of the pacifistic inclinations of a large body of students, on the ground that the actual question of war is an emotional, and not a rational problem, the continued interest of college men and women in crystallizing opinion against militarism is of great importance. No class of people is more aware of the obvious absurdity of military force, as an instrument of national policy, than students who are studying the effects of the last war. If they can train their emotional reactions sufficiently well to resist...
Brown University's pacifism excited an investigation by the Rhode Island Legislature. Voting in the poll was forbidden at the University of Nebraska, Hartwick College (Oneonta, N. Y.) and the College of the City of New York. Because the last is a taxpayers' institution, any "Red" result would have been "extremely impolitic." C. C. N. Y. has enough troubles anyway. Last week a C. C. N. Y. student named Jacob Itzkowitz appeared before a Brooklyn justice named Charles E. Russell. He wished to reassume the name Bakur which his grandfather had given up to avoid military service...