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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...administrative consciousness of our country. At last the need is felt for a dispassionate compilation of facts with which to back up after-dinner arguments. Until now this undertaking has been almost entirely in unofficial hands, the most noteworthy counts of wet sentiment having been taken by the Literary Digest in 1922 and again in 1930. But now the new research division of the Prohibition Bureau is mailing questionnaires to three thousand editors of American newspapers, asking whether they are wet, dry or neutral, in order to get an idea of public opinion through a presumably representative press...
...results of this poll will probably not be startlingly different from those shown by the Literary Digest count of 1930, which were, according to the New York Moderation League, that in the entire United States "over two to one are against the present...
...represent the public opinion of the country at large. There is no reason to suppose that the vote of three thousand editors will be any more accurate a gauge of the people's feelings than were the votes of the magazine reading public who voted in the Literary Digest ballot. And so if is suggested that a third type of poll be taken, by secret ballot, in little booths, on some "first Tuesday" in November. This, at least, ought to be conclusive...
...This is just another notable example of the public service which The Literary Digest strives to bestow. . . . But The Literary Digest does not confine its service to these more striking devotions to public welfare. Every issue of the magazine is designed to help better mentally, socially, and civically, every one who reads...
Regarded by many as its most notable public service was the Digest Prohibition Poll last spring, which brought it some 700,000 $1 subscriptions. But total Digest circulation was less in the middle of the year than...