Word: polling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real woman has fared none too well in politics lately. A red-polled, 32-year-old Baptist last week headed Governess Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson of Texas back toward the cows and chickens whence she emerged two years ago to "vindicate" her impeached husband Jim. Attorney-General Dan Moody won the Democratic primary with well over 50% of the votes cast, thus precluding a "run-off" primary unless Mrs. Ferguson's husband-manager could establish his loud charges of poll frauds. In Texas, Democratic nomination equals virtual election. Under the terms of a wager* Governess Ferguson was honor-bound...
...president of the Roosevelt Steamship Co. (The two concerns have the same offices at 44 Beaver St., Manhattan.) But the hold of shipping on him was slight. Certainly he found his affairs so well managed for him that he and Theodore Jr. could go to the Himalayas for Ovis poll pelts (TIME, March 8, SCIENCE.) Now, returned and rested, he says: "I am in shipping to stay...
Senator Moses took an informal poll, which indicated that there would be 52 votes against the Haugen bill in the Senate, enough to defeat it. But that did not still the disturbance. The Senators from the northeastern states were against it, and Senator Carter Glass of Virginia brought most of the southern Democrats into line against it. The advocates of the bill were led by Senator McNary of Oregon and Senator Gooding of Idaho. They included one Southerner, Senator Simmons of North Carolina, and such others as Steck of Iowa, McMaster of South Dakota, Watson of Indiana and, strangely enough...
...been so comforted by the assurance that a temple erected to their memory would lure "thousands of beauty lovers to come and jam its pews in search of the road to righteousness" that to find fault with the plans of suggest a different memorial would constitute a sacrilege. A Poll taken among men before going into battle might yield interesting results...
...distinction be held at the end of the Junior year instead of at the end of the Senior year. And this proposal, like the first, was defeated by a slight margin in the undergraduate vote, although it was sustained by a bare margin of ten in the faculty poll. Again in the result may fairly be called inconclusive, but on this question the reasons for the large disapproving vote are obvious enough...