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Motion Picture Herald last week announced the results of its poll of U. S. cinema exhibitors to reveal "The Biggest Money Making Stars of 1931-32." The winners...
Last fortnight Father Cox visited the Vatican. Before leaving Rome, with the Vatican as his sounding board, he told the editor of Il Tevere in an interview that he would poll 17 million votes among the U. S. unemployed, not to speak of the ex-service men. Father Cox invited Il Tevere's editor to lunch with him in the White House some time after...
...East's dissatisfaction with Prohibition was manifest in the 1930 Congressional elections. This year the Wet vote in the House reached an all-time Prohibition peak of 187. The G. O. P. in New Jersey, Illinois and Vermont last month plumped for resubmission or repeal. A Literary Digest poll showed preponderant wet sentiment in every State except Kansas and North Carolina. And last week John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who with his father has given $350,000 to the Anti-Saloon League, wrote Nicholas Murray Butler that the "evils" resulting from Prohibition led him now to favor repeal. Practical politicians...
Ninety per cent of the 1660 Harvard students who voted in the CRIMSON'S prohibition poll yesterday approved the proposal that the two major political parties should adopt a definite prohibition plank in their party platforms at the conventions in Chicago next month. Of that number 626, or about 42 per cent of those in favor of the suggestion, expressed the wish that the party platforms should advocate repeal of the prohibition...
Yesterday's poll was held in conjunction with similar ones at eight other eastern colleges; Princeton, Amherst, Bryn Mawr, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley. The action was sponsored by the Daily Princetonian. In the balloting at Princeton on Tuesday, the student body was almost unanimously in favor of making prohibition a party issue, by a vote of 1581 to 23. Total repeal was favored...