Word: straw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past CRIMSON straw ballot figures mean anything, Harvard politics are largely in the hands of the Republicans. In the CRIMSON poll of 1912, however, when 1608 votes were cast, Wilson obtained 735, Roosevelt 475, Taft 365, Debs 25 and Chafin 8. No candidate secured a majority vote...
Last fortnight, grey-haired Robert J. Cuddihy, the amiable, able, Irish, Roman Catholic publisher-manager of the Digest, announced a bigger & better "straw vote." Postcard ballots went "sifting silently through the mails" to some 19,600,000 names and addresses...
...huge. Typical of him is the fact that when he first asked Mr. Hearst for the American Weekly advertising job he pulled out a fist-full of advertising contracts already signed and at a higher rate. He got the job. He is also the man who nourished the straw hat industry. He suggested (and carried on a campaign through the Hearst papers) that men begin wearing straw hats 15 days earlier in the season. So successful was he that the present U. S. consumption of straw hats per year per adult male is two, as compared with the pre-Kobler...
...those days horses were outfitted with straw hats to protect them from the sun. In the Brooklyn firehouses on September 15, the fire gong would ring and, with great formality, the horses' straw hats would be destroyed...
...hatters of that time took up the notion, erected gongs outside their stores, and established the fifteenth as the date when no he-man would continue to wear his straw...