Word: straws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liberal Club intends to hold a straw vote next Thursday, when the real strength of Coolidge will be shown...
...this is a man of straw, he has a pretty good punch. Don't tell me that this is not an issue. It is the whole issue. If it succeeds, it means chaos. Let even there be the first intimation of success and see what it does to that confidence upon which all prosperity is based...
...conference was concluded with the taking of a straw vote of the Vassar student body. The result was as follows: Coolidge 321, Davis 180, La Follette...
This plea seems to have had the desired effect. When it was announced that a straw vote taken by the Union had resulted in the selection of the Republican candidate, James G. Blaine, by a vote of 483 to 462, all classes in the University pledged themselves to abide by the decision of the majority and unite in a Republican parade...
...sartorially perfect Herbert Heyes who took the part of Kenneth Dodge seemed a little stage struck and even went so far as to take off and put on his straw hat thirty-one times (by actual count) in the first...