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...strong preference for Hoover among American youth is registered by the combined votes taken in straw polls at 34 colleges and universities throughout the country. Hoover received practically half the total of 57,077 voters reported last night, netting the support of 28,180 students. According to the Daily Princetonian which has tabulated the results, Roosevelt was second with 17,712 votes; and Thomas followed with 10,740. Foster, the Communist candidate, received 715 votes...
...Daily Princetonian has undertaken to combine the results of the independent presidential straw votes taken in 34 colleges throughout the country. Over 50,000 students' votes will thus he added together. Results of the poll will be available tomorrow...
...order to secure a nation-wide expression of undergraduate opinion on the presidential election, the returns from the CRIMSON poll will be averaged in under the auspices of the Daily Princetonian with those of a large number of other polls being held in American colleges, and the grand totals announced about a week later
Dearly would Socialist Norman Thomas of New York City like to be the eighth Ohioan, the third Princetonian to sit in the White House. Last week, at the Socialist National Convention in Milwaukee, he got his second chance with his second nomination. As in 1928, his running mate was chosen to be James H. Maurer, one-time president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor. A 60-min. ovation greeted their uncontested nominations. Candidate Thomas keynoted his campaign thus: "Not merely or chiefly the Democratic or Republican parties, but the capitalist system behind them stands exposed in all its brutal stupidity...
Yesterday's poll was held in conjunction with similar ones at eight other eastern colleges; Princeton, Amherst, Bryn Mawr, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley. The action was sponsored by the Daily Princetonian. In the balloting at Princeton on Tuesday, the student body was almost unanimously in favor of making prohibition a party issue, by a vote of 1581 to 23. Total repeal was favored...