Word: collections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...madam in a swank Naples house appealed to venerable Senator Benedetto Croce, Italy's foremost philosopher, to block the bill "so that they too might have a prosperous holy year." Letters against the bill poured in on Senator Merlin, who had herself toured Rome's brothels to collect ammunition for her side...
...dedicated buildings, inaugurated cattle shows, addressed miners' rallies. Wherever he went he told his audiences that the atmosphere in Santiago was enough to choke him, that he had fled to the provinces to collect support against the vile politicos plotting his overthrow. Flying to Copiapo to visit a copper smelter, he said: "I must be a gypsy traveling from town to town! They are plotting against me." At a banquet of Talca farmers he cried: "I haven't come in a peaceful mood but in one of war. I will kill or be killed...
...like a country where it's nobody's damned business what magazines anyone reads, what he thinks, whom he has cocktails with . . . where no college-trained flatfeet collect memoranda about us," wrote DeVoto. " . . . If it is my duty as citizen to tell what I know about someone, I will perform that duty under subpoena ... I will not discuss anyone in private with any government investigator...
Three hundred and fifty solicitors combined their efforts last night to collect $10,159 for the Combined Charities Drive on the first night of a one-week campaign...
...Newfoundland motorists whose cars had been hit by U.S. military vehicles sued in their own courts and won damages. They could not collect...