Word: straws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another straw vote was harvested. Editor & Publisher, trade weekly of journalism, polled the executives of 925 newspapers throughout the U. S. Their composite prediction: Hoover, 16,271,276 popular and 387 electoral votes; Smith, 12,863,936 popular and 126 electoral votes. (126 electoral votes is low; John William Davis got 136 in 1924, James Middleton...
Following the custom adopted in former presidential election years, the CRIMSON is going to hold a presidential straw ballot of the University on Wednesday and Thursday of next week, October 24 to 25. The object is to obtain and preserve a record of both the College and graduate schools' 1923 choice for the White House honor...
...greatest interest in connection with the present election campaign is the fact that in the straw ballot conducted in the University on May 4, 1920 for the nominations for the respective parties, Hoover carried both Harvard and Princeton in the balloting. The figures follow: Hoover 1121 Wood 632 Johnson 117 Lowden 79 Coolidge 44 Hughes 31 Taft 21 Scattered...
...poll, Hughes decisively defeated Wilson by a plurality of 513 votes in the straw ballot. Out of a total of 1802 votes cast; Hughes received 1140, or 62 per cent; Wilson, 627; Allan L. Benson, 24; J. Frank Hanley, 10; Underwood, 1. The large number of votes indicates the interest taken in the poll, and the Republican plurality shows the Harvard opposition to the rest of the country in one of the most closely contested elections the country has ever witnessed. For two days the states were in a frenzy of excitement, Hughes being first announced as the winner...