Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most hotly contested political battle of our times today's Crimson poll should stir up more interest than the ordinary straw vote. The activites of Harvard students in the campaign of recent weeks the Landon-Knox Club, the First Voters League, the Roosevelt organizations, all show a ferment of undergraduate opinion unusual in a university accustomed to taking its politics in the coolest manner...
Like Janus, the two-faced god of the Romans, the Crimson is looking in both directions during the period preceeding its straw vote. On Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, until October fourteenth, editorials will appear by Helianthus and Mulus, two Crimson editorial writers of opposing political views. The former tends to look in the general direction of Kansas; the latter veers toward Washington...
...vital crops like cotton, and at the same time opened the gates wide for the importation from abroad of products much better produced at home. Clearly a policy which calls for slaughtering cattle in the north-west and then importing more from Canada cannot appeal to the vote of any pocket-wise consumer...
...former right hand man, Major Emil Fey. They could not lightly forget that Starhemberg had fed & clothed the Heimwehr from his own pocket until his money had run out, had then continued to feed and clothe them with Mussolini's money. After anxious debate the Heimwehr leaders finally voted for Starhemberg, then with one accord backed him in expelling Fey, who has been Chancellor Schuschnigg's candidate to succeed Starhemberg. Locals of the Vienna Heimwehr, however, mutinously announced with a 17-to-4 vote that they still supported Fey, and the split in this private army widened rapidly...
...which led to the headlines' conclusion. One Rogers C. Dunn, the Herald Tribune story went on to relate, having investigated the politics of every newspaper in the land (except those in six States which he conceded to the Democrats), had found that in 33 States representing 377 electoral votes (266 needed to win), the bulk of newspaper circulation belongs to Republican sheets. Mr. Dunn's thesis is that newspapers so accurately reflect and so strongly influence their readers, that the paper a man or woman buys is a declaration of the ticket he or she will vote. Without...