LITERARY DIGEST
(The Literary Digest)
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The largest political poll in history sampled 10 million Americans just before the 1936 presidential election. The poll clearly showed Alf Landon would win handily. Franklin Delano Roosevelt won 523 electoral votes to 8 for Landon. The Literary Digest went out of business.
Towards the end of World War I, an expedition of 7,000 American troops was sent to Siberia with vague and confused instructions regarding the their role in the conflict between the "white" and "red" Russians:
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The Literary Digest was an influential American general interest weekly magazine published by Funk & Wagnalls. Founded by Isaac Kaufmann Funk in 1890, it eventually merged with two similar weekly magazines, Public Opinion and Current Opinion.