Word: polling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poll of 4,000,000 ex-service men in the country to determine how many of them really favor the bonus...
...Collier's Weekly, after making a fruitless poll several months ago to show that President Harding would be renominated by the Republicans next year, took another poll of 120 political leaders, and announced that President Coolidge would be renominated almost without opposition...
...anti-bonus faction was not large in numbers but it was strongly persuaded of its case. It was backed up in the midst of the controversy by a letter from the Ex-Servicemen's Anti-Bonus League suggesting that the Legion coöperate with it in a poll of the great bulk of veterans to see whether they really favored a bonus. The final defeat of the anti-bonus faction was as inevitable as complete. The National Commander announced his intention of plunging immediately into the Legion's fight for a bonus...
...moral victory at the poll achieved by Leonard Wood in a far bailiwick...
...plan whereby the U. S. can promote world peace (TIME, July 9, July 16) announced that a referendum of the country on the winning plan will be taken about January 1, 1924. Fifty societies and organizations throughout the country have been organized to aid in taking the poll. The object of the referendum is that the plan may be taken before Congress with a definite indication of how the public feels towards the proposal...