Word: straws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should onetime Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois be inclined to grasp at straw votes, he might be pleased and proud at the indications of the first such political weather-vane reported in the 1927-28 campaign...
Last week the Publishers' Auto-caster Service (an organization supplying news items to 2,000 small-town weekly newspapers) published the result of a straw vote in which 362,210 voters in 29 states named their men for the Republican and Democratic presidential nomination. Though President Coolidge ran first among the Republicans with 87,176 votes, Mr. Lowden was a close second with 80,066 votes. Since President Coolidge had the advantage that goes with incumbency of the office, observers were surprised at the Lowden showing. Mr. Lowden's strength, however, was partly discounted by the fact that...
...what paper would thus dare to flout rich, potent, organized hat makers? Yet hat making (especially straw hat making) is a leading Italian industry...
...house of the Illinois legislature has called for a state referendum on the whole question an example which other legislatures might do well to follow. The votes of the citizens are the only statistics which can put an end to the welter of opposing figures, of can vasses and straw votes, stirred up by the wets and drys, and they might have some effect, as well, on the hidden forces which foment in Washington. As it is both supporters of and objectors against the eighteenth amendment must admit that its machinery needs readjusting...
...attendance at classes. But steady observation has led this writer at least to the deduction that (1) either there are less than forty men graduating from Harvard College this year or (2) a Senior in good standing is an anachronism. Have caps and gowns come to the position of straw hats--that they are left in the sanctity of Yard bedrooms...