Word: digestants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hugo M. Castello of N. Y. U., the present intercollegiate digest finished sixth; while Maurice Greason of Yale came up from comparative oblivien to garner fourth place...
...Literary Digest. Greatest straw-vote taker, the Literary Digest, whose polls predicted with considerable accuracy Repeal and the defeat of Hoover, last week reported the tabulation of 987,000 ballots from 41 states. Its question: "Do you NOW approve the acts and policies of the Roosevelt New Deal to date?" Its answers...
Many a slur was cast upon this poll because the word "now" in capitals was conceived to imply "After all this, can you really approve the New Deal?" To this the Digest answered that "NOW" was capitalized because it took a similar poll in 1934 and wanted to register changes in sentiment. So incredulous were observers of the strong anti-New Deal returns that other objections to the poll multiplied. Harvard Economics Professor W. L. Crum pointed out in the Wall Street Journal a statistical error. In 1932, 55% of Illinois voters balloted for Roosevelt. As a group this...
Another probable error urged by many critics was that Digest ballots went to telephone subscribers and automobile owners, who necessarily do not include many unemployed, many women, many young people lately come of voting age-all groups presumably strong for the New Deal (see col. 3). To this the Digest answered that its ballot was taken just as in 1932. when the election of Roosevelt was predicted with an error of less than...
...Women were 3-to-1 for Roosevelt; men 2-to-1. Some 90% of the voters explained their reasons. Of the Roosevelt voters, 38% declared they liked the man, did not agree with all his policies-a fact that partly explains the difference between the Pearson-Allen and the Digest returns. Of those opposed to Roosevelt, 63% disliked his policies, 26% were angered by broken promises, 11% disliked him personally...