Word: straws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...originated in 1920 the first nationwide sampling of public opinion in its famed straw votes, the forerunners of such notable successors as the FORTUNE Quarterly Survey and the American Institute of Public Opinion. The Digest's Presidential polls were pre-eminent until they went on the rocks with Alfred Mossman Landon...
...Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart *Largo from "Xerxes" Handel *Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky *French Military March, from the "Algerian" Suite Saint-Saens *Overture to "Benvenuto Cellini" Berlioz *"Where the Citrons Bloom," Waltzes Strauss *Divertissement Ibert *"On the Trail," from the "Grand Canyon" Suite Grofe "Turkey in the Straw" Arranged by Guion Torch Dance from "Henry VIII" German *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...soldiers dead in China and Manchukuo, the Government has put pressure upon Korean Christians to join in what it calls "patriotic" ceremonies at Shinto shrines. Christian teachers have been ordered to take their Christian classes to the shrines, join in observances which involve obeisance to the departed. Last straw came when Korean Presbyterian churches were recently ordered to join in visits to the shrines...
...struggle to find a straw of support for its position, the Crimson was forced to admit that there was excellent basis for opposition to the nominating system and to the methods used in proposing the Senior Class constitution...
...greatest publishing successes in history. Its weekly juxtaposition of contrary newspaper opinion and cartoons had won it 1,400,000 readers, made it a national institution, a schoolroom textbook, a gold mine for its publishers, Funk & Wagnalls Co. No small part of its prestige came from its famed straw votes, whose ballots were accompanied by profitable subscription appeals. For the best part of a generation these polls forecast national election results with great accuracy. But gift premiums added to straw votes were not sufficient to offset growing public apathy toward editorial opinion. In vain the Literary Digest attempted to make...