Word: canvassing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SASC's major campaign this fall, its members emphasize, will be a canvassing drive for a city referendum calling on Cambridge to divest of its holding in banks operating in South Africa. Committee members will encourage students to register for the vote this week and will canvass on behalf of the referendum right up until the local elections in November. If Cambridge approves the referendum, it will join Berkeley, Cal., which voted last spring to divest of its holdings in banks loaning to South Africa...
Sanchez added that the committee will encourage every assembly member to "canvass each of the 75 students the member represents," and will inform students of their constitutional right to recall their assembly delegates by a petition signed by a majority of the residents in a House or section of the Yard...
...carpentry shop and kitchens for feeding the neighborhood poor. His services were dazzling, with soul and gospel music and dance groups. He attracted increasing numbers of black parishioners (the Peoples Temple was more than 80% black). He involved them in liberal causes, busing them to protest demonstrations, making them canvass for politicians he favored, and ordering them to undertake letter-writing blitzes...
Meanwhile SASC has decided to canvass the entire College to "educate" students on Harvard's financial ties with corporations and banks operating in South Africa and to encourage students to sign petitions urging Harvard and Radcliffe to end those investments...
Clark K. Ervin, coordinator of Harvard Students for Brooke, said yesterday that his organization will finish tallying the results of a canvass designed to determine Harvard students' preferences in the upcoming election. The Massachusetts Students for Brooke is sponsoring the canvass state-wide to determine Brooke's support among student voters...