Word: polls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Smoot, Chairman of the Finance Committee, has asseverated his opinion that there will be enough votes to pass the bonus over a veto. The best available poll of the Senate indicates that there are 28 Senators who will certainly vote against the bill the second time, with a possibility that they will be joined by three others?making 31 votes. But 33 out of 96 votes are needed by the opponents of the bill to prevent its enactment. Will others change their minds...
...will be taken as soon as the plan is published, on Jan. 7; citizens will be given an opportunity to indicate whether or not they consider the plan to be feasible. Women's organizations, labor organizations, clubs of all kinds, patriotic organizations and churches will assist in taking a poll of the country. Newspapers and magazines?to the number of 5,000 or 6,000, will print ballots and assist in conducting the poll. By Feb. 1 it is hoped that the results will be tabulated...
...Junior poll-watchers, who are expected to be on duty at the designated hour or arrange for a substitute, are as follows...
There was no great increase in the national poll. Last year some 14,040,000 electors voted; this year about 14,186,000. Then Mr. Bonar Law polled in round figures about 5,300,000 Unionist votes; now Mr. Baldwin has polled practically the same 5,360,000. With regard to seats, the turn of luck was with the Unionists last time; it was against them this time. The two Liberal sections together secured 4,106,000 votes in 1922, and unity has only raised the total to 4,251,000 in 1923. In aggregate votes Socialism has gained more...
Gatherem [Lord Rothermere, see TIME, Dec. 3] advised his innumerable readers to vote Liberal; then, as the poll came near, with incomprehensible apologetics he told the electors to do both things favoring the Liberals one day and the Unionists the next...