Word: digesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starting off with a lucid explanation of why the editors choose to remain anonymous, the sensational publication soon dips into discussions of events of world-shaking importance. The first feature article, signed by that world-renowned authority Max, deals witheringly with the Literary Digest Peace Poll. As we turn the pages, the next story for little ones is signed, not as one would expect, by Leon or Butch, but by that prince of good follows, John, Both of these stories are of the most penetrating acumen...
Most college students, the recent Literary Digest poll indicates, would not engage in an invasion of the territory of another nation, but would take part in a "defensive war." A fine but altogether baseless, distinction apparently still exists in semi-academic circles between these two types of armed conflict. Liberty, the home, and the loved ones remain linked in imagination, with chivalrous sorties against brutal...
...York, Jan. 26--If the United States were to invade the borders of another country, 1,968 Harvard students would refuse to fight while 583 would take up arms for their country, the results of the College Peace Poll, conducted by the Literary Digest and the Association of College Editors showed today...
...arrival of the first ballots in the Literary Digest peace poll again arouses a question concerning the value of such expressions of undergraduate opinion. The sponsors of the poll, maintain that it will crystallize the attitude of students against war, thus, presumably, serving to maintain peace. The discussion that inevitably accompanies the completion of the ballots is intended to stimulate thought on the subject...
Harvard students are now receiving their peace poll ballots which the Literary Digest in connection with the Association of College Editors is sending to over 100 colleges in an effort to crystallize nationwide undergraduate anti-war sentiment...