Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Digest mailed its ballots to nineteen million voters and about one in seven have marked them and sent them back. Is this one-seventh a fair sample of the whole body of voters? If not, the real meaning of the poll will not appear on the face of the returns...
...Smith of 35,000 votes in a total of over 240,000. These votes were cast by persons, 112,000 of whom report that they supported the Republican ticket in 1924 while only 83,000 admit having supported the Democratic ticket at that election. If this were a fair sample of the voters of New York, it would follow that the city was strongly. Republican four years ago. But everybody knows that on the contrary it was strongly Democratic. Evidently the Digest ballots sent out to the voters in New York City have been returned by Republicans much more generally...
...reply to a query as to why the Law School went for Smith, Professor Beale replied that the Law School had always showed a Democratic majority. "The Business School is more apt to be a fair representation of the feelings of the country as a whole than is the Law School...
...World Series having been finished and the fame of Yankee Pitcher Waite Hoyt having been augmented, Mr. Hoyt has hibernated with profit into vaudeville. He has a fair baritone voice and his father, Ad Hoyt, used to be a minstrel player; so he was not labeled "a freak" (i.e., one who capitalizes on his fame in an alien line...
...Bill" Thompson of Chicago. Other health officers sympathized so with Dr. Bundesen that they last year elected him president of their American Public Health Association. His successor as Chicago's commissioner of health is Arnold Henry Kegel, who, technically untrained in public health work, is doing a fair job. In New York City Dr. Harris' successor is Shirley W. Wynne, who not yet has had opportunity to show his worth in improving general public health...