Word: digester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Literary Digest of the current week completes its poll of popular opinion with a showing of the final standing of the Democratic candidates. Mr. McAdoo, as was to have been expected, heads the list with 102,709 ballots for first choice and 38,840 for second. But, what was hardly to have been expected, in view of his persistent reticence as to his intentions, President Wilson comes next in the list, 67,558 Democratic voters recording him as their first choice and 12,506 as their second choice. Mr. Wilson leads Governor Edwards of New Jersey, the ardent champion...
Perhaps the most surprising feature of this final poll is the low rating of Attorney-General Palmer. Mr. Palmer threw his hat in the ring in early March, and he has not been wanting since then in activities tending to advance his aspirations. But the Digest's poll records only 19,003 first choice and 30,532 second choice for him; and the Digest, in its summary, says: "Attorney-General Palmer has throughout run a close race with Debs, the Socialist candidate, for whose incarceration in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary Mr. Palmer's Department of Justice is responsible. Mr. Palmer...
Altogether, the Digest's returns of over a million and a half votes have been a feature of no little interest in the pre-convention weeks; and have been in some ways fully as illuminating as to the course of public sentiment as some of the lightly attended official primaries. --Boston Herald
...Tuesday's paper is a letter endeavoring to explain the poor showing of the Democrats in the recent Harvard-Princeton ballot. I would direct Mr. Frieder to the ballot of the Literary Digest. Here, too--I don't know the actual figures--the Republicans were far in the lead, though, or because, the Literary Digest did everything in its power to make the ballot representative. The only difference is that Harvard and Princeton gave a majority to Hoover, while the Literary Digest ballot seems to indicate that the country wants Leonard Wood. GEOFFREY BOLTON...
...reducing unnecessary waste. But the Italian Government has found a way equally adequate and far more beneficial to the community. A decree has been issued at Rome that on and after April 8 newspapers shall be restricted to two pages. At Nassau in the Bahamas, for many years a digest of the world news in two pages was the only form of newspaper issued; and this brief journal served with complete satisfaction to keep the populace informed as to the world's progress...