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...There is little reason to think that Secretary Hoover is this candidate. No doubt Mr. Hoover has a great personal following. Probably on a Nation-wide poll of Republicans he would easily lead all the available leaders, barring Mr. Coolidge, himself. But the trouble with Mr. Hoover's following is that it is diffused, that it is politically unorganized, that it is not concentrated in the strategic centres...
Paradoxically, not even this last and touching story availed to elect Paul Painleve last week, though he will have another chance at the forthcoming second poll. The fact that the enormous number of 3,712 candidates were seeking election to the scant 612 seats in the Chamber meant inevitably that many strong candidates failed to poll a majority. Among these was famed Louis Lucheur, Finance Minister in 1925, and "the richest man in France...
...that the colleges' presidential poll is ended, undergraduates inclined to politics have a chance to show their skill in treating the more awkward subject of international affairs. Amherst, Cornell, and Michigan have been selected for assemblies of student representatives, who will proceed, in the approved League of Nations manner, to discuss such matters as disarmament and the tariff...
Alfred E. Smith, of New York, and Herbert Hoover of California, are far in the lead in the country-wide college poll of leading presidential possibilities being conducted by The Independent, according to recent figures...
...Debating Union has decided to make the debate parliamentary rather than formal, in order to obtain a representative poll of the undergraduate feeling in regard to the question. Five minute speeches will be allowed to any undergraduate or alumnus who wishes to express his views on the subject...