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With about 8% of the precincts still missing the Associated Press canvass revealed that 1,008,164 or more citizens cast their presidential ballots for minor party candidates, tripling the size of the 1928 "wasted" vote. Third Party votes...
...four years since 1920 the Digest's poll has successfully predicted the outcome with never more than a 5% error in the total vote. Each time the victorious G. O. P. accepted the poll at full value, hailed it as accurate, authoritative. This year the Digest's canvass of some 20 million citizens points strongly to a Democratic sweep. Last week the vote stood 1,095,274 for Hoover, 1,648,237 for Roosevelt who was carrying 41 States (see map p. 13). The Hearst poll, smaller but in the past even more accurate, confirmed this drift against...
...canvass of manufacturers throughout the United Kingdom revealed everything from smug satisfaction among British steel men last week to dismal gloom in the textile area, where mill owners said that under the new schedules they will have no advantage in competing with Canadian mills. Bitterly textile men recalled that the Mother Country's Chief Delegate at Ottawa was Stanley Baldwin of Baldwin's Ltd., famed British steel & iron works. In return for Canada's "favors" (such as they are) Great Britain will take an historic step, abandoning her sacrosanct principle of a "Free British Meal Table...
...office of Judge W. S. Bishop, prototype of Irvin Cobb's ''Judge Priest." In 1905, after a muleback campaign, he was elected county prosecutor. Four years later he successfully campaigned on horseback for a county judgeship. A horse & buggy carried him around on his winning canvass for the House of Representatives in 1912. Though he had risen measurably from his hillbilly background, there was about him nothing of the traditional "Kentucky colonel.'' He remained a plain simple man with no pretense of aristocracy...
...Each club shall request its graduate members to consider it a point of honor not to canvass any undergraduate in any way before the opening of College in his Sophomores year...