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...Carolina's Quarterback Hal Mauney kicked the goal that ended the game 20-to-20. first time Auburn has been tied this year. Tennessee, by beating feeble Florida 32-to-13, and Louisiana State ended the season in a triple tie with Auburn for the championship. In a poll of 31 sportswriters on southern newspapers, 22 favored giving the title to Tennessee for winning seven conference games to Auburn's six, with one tie each...
Reasons advanced for Candidate Thomas' failure to receive the 2,000,000 ballots indicated by The Literary Digest straw poll: the "protest vote" went almost entirely to Roosevelt; "parlor" Socialists, reached through the straw poll (automobile & telephone owners), are relatively more numerous than "proletarian" Socialists...
...first time Berlin went Communist, with 861,000 ballots, the Nazis dropped from first to second place with 720,000 and the Socialists who in former years topped Berlin's poll were third with...
...overwhelming approval of a sovereign people. His party will control Congress by large majorities; his personal victory will go down in history as one of the greatest landslides ever, recorded by a Democratic candidate. The fog and hysteria of a campaign have dissipated before cold numbers; the Digest Poll is again right...
Socialist Thomas expects 2,000,000 popular votes next week. If he gets them he will double the party record set by Eugene Victor Debs in 1920. The Literary Digest presidential poll indicates that he will receive slightly less than 5% of the 35 to 40 million votes to be cast Nov. 8. Last week he carried straw polls against Hoover, Roosevelt and Foster at Columbia and New York Universities. Socialist electors will appear on the ballots of 44 States. Last week they were ruled off in Oklahoma because the party had failed to poll a legal sufficiency...