Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason that the Literary Digest poll has received serious attention is that in 1924 it forecast the electoral votes received by President Coolidge with 99.44% accuracy...
...Princeton's shopkeepers, whose chief subsistence is the undergraduate trade. "No Vote-No Trade," "Recrimination for Discrimination," cried campus signs. This phase of the affair was reminiscent of the origin of it all. Last year the Princeton undergraduates were not allowed to vote in a mayoral primary election. Reason alleged: one of the candidates was Benjamin Franklin ("Bacon") Bunn, keeper of the co-operative store on the University campus. Another candidate, a onetime faculty member named Van Nest, believed that the students would pour out to vote for popular Storekeeper Bunn sooner than for an obscure pedagog...
...Reason: money-it being notorious that the pay of a Cabinet Minister* has proved too meager to support the extravagant whims* of Lord Birkenhead, who was. before he took Cabinet rank, "the highest feed barrister in England...
From the Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville, Tenn., last week came a strange suggestion to the nuns of his diocese. "Don't vote," he said in effect. His reason: the obvious hostile comment upon nuns' voting would be that they were helping to swell the Smith vote total and that the Church was massed for Smith; this he wished to avoid...
Diagonally across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania last fortnight went an insult to Philadelphia. From Erie, at the farthermost corner of the state, came the announcement that the United Lutheran Church of America would not convene in Philadelphia at the next biennial assemblage (1930). The reason for the snubbing of Philadelphia was the "graft scandals" of recent development. Milwaukee, free of graft scandals, was chosen instead...