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...operating with hopeful zest (TIME, April 28 et seq.). Under Wet pressure the House Judiciary Committee held hearings, the first in a decade, on the repeal of the 18th Amendment (TIME, Feb. 10 et seg.). With a fresh Wet Movement obviously on, the Literary Digest conducted a nation-wide poll on Prohibition which showed that out of 4,806,464 persons balloting, only 1,464,098 favored existing Dry conditions whereas 3,342,366 wanted some sort of Change...
Berlin went Red last week. The rest of the nation swung toward Brown.* Everyone admitted, on the morning after, that Republican Germany's sixth election had been her biggest, most expensive, most hysterical. There has been no poll so startling since 1912. when German workmen went Pink for the first time, rebuked Kaiser Wilhelm with a thumping Socialist vote which the War Lord refused to heed...
Jubilant were Berlin's ultra Reds, led by blond, broad-shouldered, blustering Ernst Thalmann. Rolling up 408,642 votes, his Communist party easily topped Berlin's poll. The Socialists were No. 2, with 346,014 ballots?thus proving Berlin the world's most radical capital of a Great Power next to Moscow. National returns showed a Communist gain throughout Germany of 40%, the party jumping from 54 Reichstag seats...
...discourage small cliques, the Cabinet considered a bill which would require each Reichstag deputy to poll at least 70,000 votes. Present requirement is 60,000 votes. The bill, however, cannot be considered until the Reichstag is again convened...
...complete report on the CRIMSON'S recent intercollegiate prohibition poll has been introduced into the Congressional Record by Mrs. Mary T. Norton, New Jersey representative, as refutation of evidence recently presented before the House Judiciary Committee by Dr. Polling of the Penny Foundation and Christian Endeavor of New York. Dr. Polling cited figures to show that drinking in the colleges is neither general nor on the increase...