Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Literary Digest last week published a supplement to its main poll on approval of the New Deal (TIME, Jan. 6), showing that of 21,600 clergymen, 70% were opposed to it. This result tended to confirm the verdict of many an oldtime politician that President Roosevelt, because he backed Repeal, tolerated two divorces in his family, goes fishing on Sunday and rarely mentions God in public, will lose considerable support from the Church next autumn...
...Emil Hurja's election predictions. His method is simply to avoid opinion, stick to statistical facts. Letters received by the Democratic National Committee and at the White House are all carefully cataloged by subject and place of origin, thereby giving Mr. Hurja some clues to public opinion. His main reliance is on polls, public & private, local & national. Little polling is done specially for him, but he ferrets out many polls of which the public never hears and adds them to his store of information. In former years the straw votes conducted by the Literary Digest and the Hearst Press...
...main argument for the affirmative was that the judgments of the Court involve too much merely of the personal opinion of the justices. Harvard representatives were, in order of speaking, Thomas W. Stephenson '37, John A. Sullivan, Jr. '38, and Joseph P. Healey...
...necessity but also many times prove to be a source of embarrassment mingled with shame over the fact that we have been so long in coming to the obvious realization. Young college men who are interested in politics and government, particularly public administration, are today interested in two main problems: first, what definite opportunity is there for trained men in government service today and what possibilities are there for career advancement in the years to come; and second, how should the college man train himself for public administration...
...Florida East Coast's stock was held by the Flagler estate, the only publicly-owned securities being equipment trust certificates and a small first mortgage bond issue. But in order to handle boom traffic, the road had to embark upon a development program which included double-tracking the main line from Jacksonville to Miami. Consequently $45,000,000 of bonds were marketed through J. P. Morgan & Co. Peak year for the 812-mile "Flagler System" was 1926, when gross revenues were $29,400,000, of which $2,700,000 were retained as clear profit. Next year revenues started...