Word: canvassing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1914 the undergraduate clubs have agreed that their members will not canvass members of the Freshman class and that they will not elect any undergraduate before the fourth Monday after the opening of College in his Sophomore year, and that no pledge or promise from any Sophomore shall be accepted before the Friday following the fourth Monday...
...Each club shall request its graduate members to consider it a point of honor not to canvass any undergraduate in any way before the opening of College in his Sophomore year...
Every March the Presbyterian Church conducts its money-raising Every Member Canvass. Last March was an unfortunate one for the Presbyterians; the week they campaigned was the Week the Banks Closed. The Canvass undershot its mark, $50,000,000 for missions and home expenses, by $8,000,000. Last week the Presbyterians launched a supplementary canvass. They called it a "Spiritual Recovery Crusade." They began organizing the nation's 10,000 Presbyterian ministers to "Do Our Part" in a great drive which will culminate with special church services everywhere Oct. 29. Said Dr. Herman Carl Weber, statistician and Every...
...organizing a "Baptists Hundred Thousand Club"-100,000 members who will give $1 extra a month to liquidate the debt in five years. Congregational & Christian Churches, about 33% behind, will specialize in parochial visiting, coin banks and a church Guest Book. Lutherans, receiving "slightly" less than last year, will canvass in November when will come the 450th anniversary of Martin Luther's birth...
...pedagogs who have been begging for Federal aid took hope when the New Deal came in. Last June they began looking anxiously towards the white Department of the Interior Building in Washington, wherein is housed the U. S. Office of Education. Secretary Ickes had appointed a committee to canvass the nation for the ablest possible successor to U. S. Commissioner of Education William John Cooper. The committee picked George Frederick Zook, 48, president of the University of Akron (TIME, July 3). Satisfied with his educational record (after working his way through the University of Kansas by driving a hearse...