Word: polle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is little reason to think that Secretary Hoover is this candidate. No doubt Mr. Hoover has a great personal following. Probably on a Nation-wide poll of Republicans he would easily lead all the available leaders, barring Mr. Coolidge, himself. But the trouble with Mr. Hoover's following is that it is diffused, that it is politically unorganized, that it is not concentrated in the strategic centres...
...that the colleges' presidential poll is ended, undergraduates inclined to politics have a chance to show their skill in treating the more awkward subject of international affairs. Amherst, Cornell, and Michigan have been selected for assemblies of student representatives, who will proceed, in the approved League of Nations manner, to discuss such matters as disarmament and the tariff...
Alfred E. Smith, of New York, and Herbert Hoover of California, are far in the lead in the country-wide college poll of leading presidential possibilities being conducted by The Independent, according to recent figures...
Voters will signify on their ballots the one man whom they would prefer as the representative of each party. Any one may vote for a candidate not on the ballot. The result of today's poll will be announced tomorrow morning...
...Debating Union has decided to make the debate parliamentary rather than formal, in order to obtain a representative poll of the undergraduate feeling in regard to the question. Five minute speeches will be allowed to any undergraduate or alumnus who wishes to express his views on the subject...