Word: digesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tableau was not marred by the first results of a Literary Digest poll asking 15,000,000 1932 voters: "Do you approve on the whole the acts and policies of Roosevelt's first year?" Sixty-six percent of the 45,000 balloters (from New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania) said Yes, whereas only 57% of the total Digest's straw voters had favored Roosevelt in the 1932 poll. Forty-one percent of the Digest balloters who had chosen Hoover two years ago now favored the President's policies...
...some 11,000,000 words of copy-"more," he proudly observes, "than in the Encyclopedia Britannica." His professional routine was more pleasant than that of the average newshawk. His office was above his apartment in a penthouse a few doors off lower Fifth Avenue. There every morning he would digest the daily newspapers arranged for him by a secretary. He might go out to luncheon with a banker, or speed to Washington for a White House press conference. In the afternoon, working in shirt-sleeves and puffing a pipe, he would write his daily 1,200 word dispatch in longhand...
With the appearance today of the ballots sent out by the CRIMSON in conjunction with the Literary Digest poll concerning the Roosevelt administration all Harvard University students will have the opportunity to express their reaction to the Roosevelt regime, and the results should prove of more than usual interest. Such polls of under graduate opinion on many issues of major importance are becoming increasingly popular, since they offer probably the only satisfactory way of securing the opinion of the informed and thinking youth of today on current problems...
...They will participate in a straw vote of a novel kind. It will be a secret ballot. It will be widely accepted as a reflection of the state of the public mind with respect to the policies of the Roosevelt Administration because it will be conducted by the Literary Digest, which in forecasting election results by this method has shown that it is remarkably accurate in telling how the American nation will vote. There would seem to be no reason why it should not be equally successful in revealing what the American people think...
...There will be no interference with such use, and with the publication of the findings. No such referendum as that about to be conducted in this country would be permitted in Hitler's Germany. So, in view of conditions in Germany and other lands across the sea, this Literary Digest referendum has addition interest and significance as a reminder that freedom of speech and opinion still exist in the United States. Boston Transcript...