Word: polle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Polls will be open on February 15 in Sever Hall until 10 o'clock. From 12 until 2 o'clock and from 6 until 7 o'clock they will be open in Smith Standish. Gore, and McKinlock, the four Freshman dormitories. Members of the Sophomore class will be appointed as poll watchers...
...officials, they may draw up a petition demanding a special election to oust the official in ques- tion or give him a fresh vote of confidence. As soon as a certain percentage (varying in different states between 10% and 25%) of the voters have signed the petition, the special poll is held. This is known as the recall. More than half of the states west of the Mississippi River have adopted it. Here is how it works in the burly state of Washington...
Urbane, but making little effort to conceal his happy mind, the Rev. Charles Stelzle, Chairman of the Church Advertising Department, International Advertising Association, last week made public with extensive comment the results of a ten-day "nation-wide" religious poll, just concluded. One hundred fifty-three city newspapers from Manhattan to Seattle had asked their readers such forthright questions as: "Do you believe in God?"† "Do you think that religion in some form is necessary?" To the first, 91% answered yes; to the second 87% yes. In fact all the proportions were almost equally favorable to the cause, unless...
...Labor candidate. Worse still, this "Laborite" was Oswald Mosley, son-in-law of that late bulwark of the peerage, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. The "Oswald-Oliver" by-election campaign raised a stir which amounted to a scandal throughout England (TIME, Dec. 27), and then last week, the polling brought a climax. Oswald Mosley was elected a Laborite by 16,077 votes; only 9,495 going to J.M. Pike, his Conservative opponent while the Liberal candidate fail to poll one-eighth of all the votes cast and so forfeited his elector deposit...
...James A. Reed investigations showed that he used a slush fund of some $700,000 to win the primaries last spring. Recent researches purport to reveal frauds in the November elections. In many wards in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Mr. Vare's Democratic opponent, William Bauchop Wilson, did not poll a single vote; in 119 city districts in Pittsburgh, Mr. Wilson received less than ten votes in each. Mr. Vare received the votes of one dead man, of one 5-year-old girl, of 25 people who swore they had not been near a polling place. With such facts...