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...citizens The Literary Digest last week began mailing ballots for its third national Prohibition poll. Unlike its last ballot, scattering votes among "For," "Against" and "Modification," this one was limited to "For" or "Against" the 18th Amendment. ¶ After discovering 100 cases of liquor and a sub-calibre machine gun in a dwelling house, Federal Prohibition agents in New Orleans last week arrested Charles Genard, onetime halfback at Loyola Uni-versity (New Orleans), sought his brother, Dominick. president of Loyola's freshman class, and their father. College officials were amazed to learn that the Genard family was accused...
...boards, trustees, and presidents, though usually in favor of peace, often have a way of disregarding the wishes of their students when these depart from tradition or run counter to the ambition of vested military interests to use youth for their own purposes. But we are hopeful that this poll may stimulate teachers, especially, to keep on courageously with their task of freeing their institutions from the clutches of war ideology...
List of the ten best pictures of the year, selected by The Film Daily after a poll which this year included 339 cinema critics on newspapers with 30,000,000 readers...
...suggestions made at the Convention do not seem entirely visionary. In a poll taken among all the delegates, many of whom had taken military training at their colleges, an overwhelming majority voted against compulsory courses in it. At Cornell, Tech, and elsewhere there is already agitation against it in the student body. The proposal that it be petitioned to appoint a student to the Geneva disarmament committee was made in the hope that the feelings of young men and women might be exposed. If enough pressure is felt from those who are affected, results are bound to come. Some student...
...Centre Fielder John Leonard ("Pepper") Martin of the St. Louis Cardinals; for his performance in the 1931 World Series against the Philadelphia Athletics: an Associated Press poll of experts on "the outstanding individual achievement in sports." Second was U. S. Tennis Champion Ellsworth Vines. ¶Primo Camera, gargantuan Italian pugilist: a judgment for $63,017 against his midget Anglo-French manager, Leon See; for moneys which Camera had earned in what most U. S. experts considered fraudulent boxing exhibitions and which, according to Camera, See had invested, without his permission, in fraudulent gold mine stock...