Word: soliciting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have found in my travels around the country that there is a nation-wide confusion as to when Indian Summer begins and when it ends. I believe such confusion should be ended and I came to solicit the President's help in getting through Congress a bill defining Indian Summer and establishing by law the date on which it begins and ends...
...drew 10,000 people to the Chicago Stadium, home of hockey games, prize fights, the late Republican and Democratic Conventions. Manhattan's Maurice Frank staged the production (the first of 20), used the Civic Opera orchestra and chorus, one piece of scenery. Impresario Frank is not attempting to solicit the patronage of Ryersons, McCormicks, Swifts and their peers. In his excitable way, he likes to remind people that the high-priced, subsidized opera which socialites favored proved a failure...
...They begged the Park Commission's permission to occupy daily, between 10 a. m. and sunset, a 6-ft. strip of the streets bordering and enclosing Washington Square Park. They promised to keep 10 ft. away from street intersections and entrances to the park, neither to hawk nor solicit passersby, to make no litter, to pick up their campstools and easels and go home at nightfall. Foreseeing one obvious objection of officialdom the committee added in its petition that the moppets of Washington Square would be exposed to no nudes, no political propaganda...
...Blue Valley Farmer, with a claimed circulation of 80.000 and no free list, is owned by Oklahoma's Governor William Henry Murray, his wife Alice, his cousin Cicero. In answer to the widespread charge that Murraymen capitalize on it; owners' official position to solicit advertising and subscriptions, Governor Murray has announced that he would dismiss any employe so doing. Many a Blue Valley Farmer advertiser reports satisfaction with results...
...months ago, the Los An-geles Times set up a sustained cry that William Randolph Hearst was the real purchaser. That big Publisher Hearst and small Publisher Block are warm friends, mutual admirers, is no secret. Publisher Block, more an adman than a newsman, has the sole right to solicit national advertising for Hearst's New York American. Many an observer besides the Los Angeles Times has believed that their business relationship was much closer, took as evidence the fact that they had traded papers in Pittsburgh. Detroit and Milwaukee. But Publisher Block denied that Mr. Hearst...