Word: straws
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...machine. In order more fully to illustrate its operation four questions have been selected to be voted on: 1, Should the Covenant of the League of Nations be adopted by the United States? 2, Should the United States adopt some plan of Universal Military Training? 3, A straw vote on presidential candidates for 1920. 4, Selection of an All-American baseball nine from the two leading teams of the major leagues...
...referendum ballot in seven hundred colleges and universities in all parts of the country would represent as far as is possible a cross-section of the sentiment of the nation. Such a vote would have far more significance than the straw ballots recently held at Harvard and Yale and elsewhere; a nation-wide vote would eliminate the possibility of the charge of sectionalism and would not represent only one social class...
...straw ballot held in September, 83 per cent, of those voting favored the ratification of some form of the League of Nations Covenant. During the five remaining days before the assembling of the new Congress, the Administration and the Senators are trying to ascertain public opinion on this vital question, and the above strong majority has now a chance to make itself felt. Every man in the University will have an opportunity to sign a petition to be sent to President Wilson, Senator Lodge and Senator Hitchcock, urging the reopening of debate, and the ratification of a compromise, which other...
Princeton undergraduates showed themselves in favor of accepting the League of Nations with reservations in a straw vote held under the auspices of the Princetonian last Thursday. The vote stood 542 in favor of the League with reservations, as opposed to 297 for the League of Nations as it stands, and 120, opposed to it in any form. The total of 959 votes indicates the interest which was shown in the ballot...
...result of the straw ballot on the League of Nations held in the University yesterday, 699 men voted for the League as it stands out of a total of 1686 ballots cast. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alone returned a positive majority for the League in its present from; but, on the other hand, in all branches of the University a decisively larger number voted for it than for any of the three other choices offered on the ballot. The total for the League, with reservations such as will not recommit the Treaty to the Peace conference...