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...note with great interest that the Harvard Law Students have come out overwhelmingly for prohibition. The poll is second only in importance to a similar vote of the Junior League. It would have been an interesting touch if information had been gathered at the same time on the average age of the voters, before prohibition...
Returns from the poll held yesterday at the Law School by the Roosevelt-for-President Club reveal 525 votes in favor of a change in the existing prohibition law against 36 in favor of retaining the present system. Of the five questions printed on the ballot, four dealt with prohibition and the fifth with the nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 for president. Only 61 students failed to east ballots...
...complete results of the poll are as-follows: 1. Do you favor a change in the existing prohibition law? Yes: 525, No: 36; 2. Do you favor repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment? Yes: 318, No: 206; 3. Do you favor modification of the Eighteenth Amendment? Yes: 330, No: 118; 4. Do you believe Congressional action through a change of the Volstead Act would be legal and effective? Yes: 309, No: 116; 5. Do you favor the presidential nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...opinion of the Harvard Law School, regarding the issue of prohibition and the candidacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt '03 for the presidential nomination next Summer, will be ascertained today by a poll conducted by the Roosevelt for President Club. Of the five questions upon which the voter is asked to express his opinion, four have to do with the prohibition law and e other with the nomination of Governor Roosevelt...
...well-to-do and a débutante, a young woman who knows members willing to write letters in her behalf may be admitted to the Junior League. Last week the Junior League voted, through the Junior League Magazine's poll, 8,021-to-397 against the 18th Amendment. But the Association of Junior-Leagues of America, Inc. (23,300 members) never goes on record officially in any political question. Commented Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, national chairman of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform: "The result of the poll is one of the most telling blows...