Word: canvassing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fighting force, not merely to wrest concessions from their 'partners,' the Government and the bosses, but to capture the former and to destroy the latter as a class." In New York City last week the Socialist Party was asked to cooperate in the NRA consumer campaign, to canvass housewives to sign pledge cards. Party spokesmen replied that they were too busy "organizing the working masses under the act'' to divert any of their energies to other purposes. The No. 1 Socialist, Norman Mattoon Thomas, publicly warned that NRA is packed with all manner of new dangers...
...Society, student and alumni letter-men's organization at the University of California, fortnight ago announced a project the nature of which would cause an ethical shudder if proposed in the East. The Big C will appoint a fulltime representative to canvass secondary and high schools for young athletes and tell them about California "as a place of clean athletics combined with sound scholastic standards." The Big C man will be paid a salary. The Big C asks friends to help. Funds will be audited, kept out of the hands of athletes. Needy men may be helped...
...choosing an important appointee, a President must measure the candidate's loyalty against his capability. A man both loyal and capable was at hand for Ambassador to France. Jesse Isidor Straus began working for President Roosevelt two years ago when he reported that a canvass of 1928 Democratic convention delegates was favorable to the Roosevelt cause. As president of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. (cash dry goods), which he has headed since his father Isidor went down with the Titanic, he was one of the first businessmen to board the Roosevelt bandwagon...
...Contrary to popular notion, neither Kiplinger nor any other reputable letter service deals in "confidential" information because very little confidential information is available. Kiplinger employs nine full-time staff men who have found that the wisest men in Washington on legislative prospects and administrative policies are lobbyists. They scrupulously canvass the most potent spokesmen on both sides, take time to gauge the political force behind each, check it, make their forecasts. Editor Kiplinger keeps score on right & wrong guesses, computes his staff's average 85% right. Single important piece of legislation so far passed by this Congress...
...selections were made by Vice President Robert J. Bender; INS's by President Joseph V. Connolly, AP's by a canvass of 17 editors who unanimously put the Lindbergh story at the top. UP's Bender solemnly added the amendment that for fundamental importance to the world, the "general economic upheaval" should be regarded as the year's biggest story...