Word: polling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...First week's poll of Canadian letters on Reader Whitehouse: eight for, 102 against...
Wendell Willkie came out on top in his second straight House poll yesterday, beating Franklin Roosevelt in Lowell by an even greater margin than in Adams, the first House to hold a straw vote early this week...
Until now the Harvard Student Defense League has done little but talk and sport buttons rivalling those of Mr. Willkie. In contrast is a concrete proposal for undergraduate training, which they will test on Monday by a poll of the student body...
Unless the poll shows that a large number, even approaching a majority, of Harvard men want extracurricular military training, the Defense League should go no further. Nothing could be more futile than the formation of a broomstick brigade among a small group of interventionist fanatics. There is, moreover, reason to believe that the Army could ill spare the officers and material necessary for the proper training of a specially previleged group of Harvard students. In the regular Military Science staff this year are two young men up from the R.O.T.C., instead of the usual experienced West Pointers...
...Gold Coasters opened the University's straw vote season yesterday with a trial poll, sponsored by the House Committee. Wendell Willkie, Republican nominee for President, finished first by the margin of 110 to 93, or 51.4 per cent to 43.4 per cent for Roosevelt. Norman thomas, Socialist candidate, received 3.75 per cent of the total vote with eight ballots, and Roger Babson and Charles A. Lindbergh both received votes. Over 80 per cent of the House participated in the poll...