Word: digests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Literary Digest's poll, for this week, records 43 states out of 44 in the wet column, with over two million votes cast. Twenty-three of these states are for complete repeal, and twenty for modification...
...Harvard CRIMSON's poll of student sentiment on the Prohibition question in 14 leading universities, the Literary Digest's national poll now in full swing, and the recent 82-61 vote of the New York Assembly supporting the Cuvillier bill petitioning Congress to call a Constitutional convention to repeal the unlovely Amendment have served, for the first time, to bring together under the same tent definite and compact opinion on the liquor question from three distinct elements in the Republic...
...brunt of the Dry attack was borne by William Seaver Woods, Digest editor. Again and again Dr. Woods insisted his magazine was neutral. "Bosh." he retorted to all Dry charges, as he carefully explained that the 20,000,000 ballots sent out were scientifically apportionated to each state on the 'basis of population, that past events had proved Digest polls 95% accurate, that duplications were infinitesimal...
...publicity bureau of Funk & Wagnalls, publishers of the Literary Digest, let it be known that Dr. Woods was not only the son of a Methodist minister but an ardent personal Dry, a fact to which his friends in New York and Washington who had vainly offered him drinks readily attested...
...Digest office, however, would not reveal whether Robert J. Cuddihy. able, amiable, Roman Catholic vice president of Funk & Wagnalls, actual publisher of the Digest and sponsor for its poll, was personally...