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...students voted for Willkie, with 107 for President Roosevelt, four for Thomas, and one for Prohibitionist Babson. 56 percent of the students voted in the poll...
...Newly renovated was the Prohibition Party, which met in convention last spring, decided that one way to solve the relief problem was to direct into other channels $5,000,000,000 annually-spent in the U. S. for liquor. Nominated for President was goateed Roger Ward Babson, Wellesley Hills (Mass.) statistician, who forlorn-hopefully declared: "I have nothing to offer the American people except the privilege of sacrificing themselves for the common good. . . ." For Vice President: Edgar Vaughn Moorman, wealthy Illinois feed...
With "Vat 69 or Fight" as their campaign slogan, several serious-minded youths in Leverett House are initiating a vigorous campaign for the election of prohibitionist Babson as President of these United States...
...make Harvard's undergraduates as dry as its lecture halls," they confidently predicted. "No third drink--vote for Babson...
...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...