Word: polling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Ballots requesting further open discussion were not recounted. They totaled about 50. There were besides these, several ineligible and some unintelligible votes, which brought the poll up to a total of nearly...
...HAVEN, CONN., Jan. 18, 1917.--A straw vote held at Yale today in regard to universal compulsory military training in the United States resulted in a poll of 1400 votes. Eighty percent of these, 1,112, were in favor of some form of universal training...
...their descendants live? How would we vote in Cambridge? We would vote for a city government calculated to give a sound administration of the city's business. Is Cambridge afraid we would vote for extravagant expenditures on public works? Thousands of day laborers who pay no more than a poll tax would vote for them too, in order to get a chance to work on them. And the public improvements are needed too. We do not want to be so-journeys in a strange land. We want to help solve the political problems of Massachusetts. Though the time...
...result of a non-partisan poll of Princeton alumni taken by a committee of graduates from that university under the auspices of the Hughes National College League show 2,098 votes for Hughes and 651 for Wilson. The poll reveals that 492 alumni who voted for Wilson in 1912 are going to vote for Hughes this year; whereas 57 is the total Taft and Roosevelt vote which is going to Wilson. Equally significant is the fact that 360 men who voted for Roosevelt in 1912 are going to vote for Hughes and only 37 for Wilson. Over 90 per cent...
...CRIMSON Building, however, Hughes secured a landslide. There were 960 votes cast and 684 of these were for Hughes, Wilson received a smaller number here than he received at Memorial Hall, although over a 100 more votes were cast. The percentage of votes for Hughes at this poll was 72 per cent. Benson received 11 votes here Hanley 3, and Underwood...