Word: canvassing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Probably the chief reason for this is the increased difficulty among the Faculty and Graduate School of conducting a person-to-person canvass. Six thousand letters have been sent out to faculty members and nonresident graduate students, but something about it makes an impersonal letter far too easy to slip quietly into the nearest wastebasket. Admittedly some of these letters went out late, and admittedly graduate students are on the average poorer per capita than undergraduates. But for the full professors and associate professors, who can certainly afford a reasonable contribution, any excuse is indeed small. The drive includes...
...even a well-thumbed Hymarx will be spurned by Radcliffe collectors who will canvass the Annex this week in an N.S.A. sponsored drive for textbooks to restock the empty library shelves of Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia...
...committee of 20 which will canvass every Lowell entry in an effort to reach a goal of "a book from each man," the drive spearheads next week's text and clothing collection for the Salzburg Seminar and Western European Universities...
...American Union planners a scheme for a $5 billion U.S. loan to finance industrialization of Latin America, stabilize local currencies. In Rio de Janeiro, U.S. -wise Brazilian Businessman Valentim Bougas urged Latin Americans to follow the ex ample of European nations, which met in Paris last summer to canvass their needs. Latin delegates, Bougas said, should get together at Bogota ten days before the conference "to discuss beforehand the Marshall Plan for South America." An other proposal that Latin Americans would like to discuss: an Inter-American Bank, with the U.S. putting up the lion's share...
...same time, Council Treasurer Ray A. Goldberg '48 disclosed that the Fund's door-to-door canvass had reaped more than $1500 to date, elevating the total for this fall's drive to approximately...