Word: straws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON Straw Ballot held yesterday, Senator Warren Gamaliel Harding, the Republican nominee, defeated Governor James Middleton Cox, the Democratic candidate, by 270 votes. 2030 votes were cast, which represents considerably more than 50 percent of the members of the University...
Last May the CRIMSON held a straw ballot for the presidential candidates. Herbert Hoover then swept the University with a large majority, with Leonard Wood as his nearest competitor. Harding and Cox, scarcely considered as presidential prospects at that time, polled only a scattered eight votes in this balloting...
...Haitian scandal is surely the traditional "last straw". Even without it the Wilson record in foreign affairs has been the most humiliating in all our history, dotted with the graves of our unavenged dead on land and sea. The mere mention of the names of Columbus, Tampico, Vera Cruz, and Carrizal, of Villa and of Carranza; of Lenine and Trotzky, and our soldiers who died in Russia without knowing why they were sent there or for whose cause they fought, is enough to make all Americans, "who never fight," blush with shame and bitter humiliation. And now to these awful...
...spring, no election is valid unless at least sixty per cent, of the class votes. Both totals of ballots cast form less than thirty per cent of the class and the voting will have to be continued until the required number of ballots are cast. Due to the Presidential straw-ballot being held today, the voting will be continued tomorrow. The polls will be open from eight A. M. to six P. M. at the CRIMSON Building. Only those who have not yet voted will be allowed to vote tomorrow. The list of 1922 nominees is as follows...
...CRIMSON will conduct a Presidential Straw Ballot today, in which all members of the University, including graduate students and Faculty members, may vote. The CRIMSON will hold the ballot under the auspices of the Eastern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association. Similar ballots are being conducted by other leading college papers...