Word: soliciting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there was no balm in the Equitable Trust's advertisement, which read: "Banks don't solicit expiring accounts. Establish your banking relationship and your credit while conditions are favorable. No doctor is anxious to be called in when the patient is known to be dying. Neither can you expect any bank to want your account when you are in business trouble. . . . Be sure to establish a profitable connection when you are prosperous and in a position to choose...
...purpose of the Student Council Budget is to eliminate the many solicitations which the University administration have sanctioned in the past as for example the oscillations for the Phillips Brooks House, and Class Funds, as well as to pay for sundry expenses occurred by the Student Council, as in furnishing Freshman common rooms and so forth. The $12,000 budget is divided among all the institutions which would otherwise have to solicit independently. The budget pledges which average about $5, therefore constitute the sole expense of this sort incurred...
...teach the public to have the disease treated at an early stage of development. . . . If every case could be recognized in two weeks after cancer has set in, and then treated by surgery, there would be no more death rate from cancer." For such publicity the society is soliciting $1,000,000 to assure an annual income of $50,000. John D. Rockefeller Jr. has already given $125,000, Edward S. Harkness $100,000, and other rich men enough money to make up $536,000. Of this $100,000 had to be spent last year to pay the expenses...
...raising their Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Gifts to the University. Under the present plan, the only appeal to the Graduate School alumni is made through the general literature sent out by the Council and through notices and articles in the Bulletin. This far there has been no attempt to solicit funds from those men through agents appointed for the purpose...
...itself a status toward civic affairs in Washington and New York for which its qualifications are of questionable origin and its performance inadequate. If it proposes to make its powers felt by means of cathedrals it should supply the money to build them from its own members and not solicit gifts from other denominations." Jerusalem Kirk. In the Holy City the president of the court of appeal looked about him, noted Scotsmen passing the Christian Sabbath desolate. They had no church. So he appealed to the Established and United Free Churches of Scotland, for a memorial church...