Word: digestants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Distant memories of the October day when President Roosevelt met with a cold reception at the gateway to his own college have faded far into the past with the tremendous approval which has been showered on him by the CRIMSON-Literary Digest poll. While Harvard was 73.74 per cent for Hoover in 1932, it is now 65.11 per cent for the Roosevelt policies. This change of feeling cannot come as a great surprise to many people; it would have been startling if the College had still maintained its support for the Republican Administration...
...President had evidently decided that now was the time for him to come to the aid of his Party. The Literary Digest poll showed the public ''on the whole" approved of the New Deal about 3-to-2. In the East, Roosevelt popularity was pulling ahead of the 1932 vote but throughout the Midwest the President was apparently slipping. For the first time Democrats began to worry about their possible losses in a nation-wide election lacking a popular national candidate to help them through. Last week's message was the nearest practical approach to put- ting...
Latest returns of the Crimson-Literary Digest poll on the Roosevelt policies total 1,911 voting "yes" and 1,024 voting "no." Results from seventeen college newspaper polls continue to reveal an astonishing overturn of student sentiment in favor of Roosevelt. Figures follow. Univ. Yes No Total Harvard 1,911 1,024 2,935 Yale 1,283 830 2,113 Cornell 961 645 1,606 Brown 241 180 421 Univ. of Va. 160 68 228 Univ. of Wis. 374 148 522 New York Univ...
...election Roosevelt has worked strenuously to seek approbation and support for policies which were new for the country. Radio speeches, addresses on special occasions, messages to Congress, and newspaper interviews have sought to win over the entire nation to a liberal policy Roosevelt sincerely seemed to believe in. Digest figures indicate that for the most part, he has succeeded. Always addressing himself to the people, explaining his plans in clear, unmistakable terms, Roosevelt has demonstrated the efficacy of tactics shunned by former executives...
...scheme of government or will the conservatives make themselves heard above the propaganda of complacent optimism and liberalism? Whatever course the country decides to take, it must make sure it is heartily in accord with policies, and not merely following a genial hero of the hour. The Digest poll fails to indicate which it is that is being supported...