Word: canvassing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the system inaugurated this year, the House secretaries will receive compensation for their task of marshalling the members of the Houses to enter sports, and Director Samborski stressed the fact that a room-to-room canvass of all House members must be made in order to determine in what direction sport sympathies...
...call Congressmen to the White House to confer. Last week he called not one conference, but one or more conferences a day. No less than 19 Senators went to the White House successively. It looked almost as if the President meant to conduct a seat by seat canvass of the Senate. He likewise delivered a long "background" talk to newshawks...
From questionnaires sent out to his classmates, Author Tunis learned that most of Harvard 1911 read no books, boast no intellectual diversions, live generally mediocre lives. By a "personal, house-to-house canvass" Classmate Benchley collected a grim set of 1912 confessions: "I have three children, all of whom look like me. "I have no children, all of them Chinese. (It is only fair to state that this came from a Chinese classmate.) "I have two daughters, one of whom thinks I went to Colgate and the other of whom goes around with a Princeton man. "The only date...
...close of the party, clothing collected by the Committee in their recent canvass of the Yard dormitories was distributed to the children...
...following Freshmen will canvass the Yard; Holworthy Hall, James M. Mixter; Thayer Hall, Arthur W. Page, Jr., and Frank S. Streeter; Weld Hall, Walter D. Riddle, Jr.; Stoughton Hall, John I. Mohler; Hollis Hall, Langdon B. Gilkey; Lionel and Mower Halls, Christian M. Lauritzen...