Word: errors
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Creek) as Senator from Wyoming. This was an error. Wyoming Democrats declared that it was a "glaring" error and an "egregious" error. Final returns showed that Senator John Benjamin Kendrick, Democrat, cattleman, 32° Mason, of Sheridan, Wyoming, had been reelected by 8,700 votes which, in Wyoming, is a comfortable margin. It will be Senator Kendrick's third successive term. Aged 71, Senator Kendrick is a member of the committees on Agriculture and Forestry, Appropriations, Indian Affairs, Irrigation and Reclamation, Public Lands and Surveys...
...statement in TIME, Oct. 29, that the G. O. P. negotiated loans of $600,000 and $167,000 to finance its 1920 deficit, contained a typographical error. The figures should have been...
...chance of election you call a problem in higher mathematics. Norman Thomas will poll a small percentage of votes and he will not be elected; the error in any estimate of the number of his votes is insignificant in its relation to the result desired, knowledge of the outcome of this election...
Penetrating behind the electoral votes predicted in 1924 to the ratios of popular votes then predicted by the Literary Digest, Democrats last week pointed to wider margins of error. Dr Fabian Franklin, Manhattan economist-publicist, in a debate by letter with Editor William Seaver Woods of the Literary Digest, compared the predicted ratios of Davis and Coolidge votes in 1924 with actual ratios. In 22 states, the Literary Digest's figures predicting what percentage of the Coolidge vote the Davis vote would be, put the Davis vote from 10% to 48% too low. Had the 1924 election not been...
Seizing upon last week's Literary Digest figures and correcting them by factors of error in the 1924 straw vote, Chairman Raskob soon snowed his candidate easily carrying, for example, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Illinois...