Word: soliciting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Orchestral Association will give five more concerts this season. Because students naturally are not paid union wages, no admission can be charged. To meet the present $60,000 budget, young Manhattan socialites gladly do office work, solicit contributions, sell memberships at prices ranging from $1 to $5,000. Of the 130 young men and women who comprise the orchestra, many are on scholarships, pay as little as $1 a year tuition, and especially needy students receive money for rent and clothing. Conductor of the association is tall, slim Violist Leon Barzin (TIME, July 31, 1933), 37, who gathers...
...Generalissimo Francisco Franco sent his representative, a Mr. Toca, to Berne in order to solicit recognition by the Swiss Government for his regime...
Following an 11 year old practice, he will solicit gifts from members of his class before graduation; and every succeeding year will send out appeals to classmates for voluntary contributions to the Fund. Large individual donations are not asked for, but whatever a Senior gives now will be nearly trebled by compound interest in time for the 25th reunion...
...brother's money to find out if he was right. Friends like Fred Bohen came in for $200,000 more. In spite of his big circulation plans (400.000 first issue). Publisher Cowles announced that, for the present, Look would solicit no advertising. To tradepapers he announced that Look would have "reader interest for yourself, for your wife, for your private secretary, for your office boy." To the public he merely stated that Look was "the most interesting magazine in the world." To insure future lookers, part of the next number's contents were revealed in the first issue...
...workshop for radio broadcasting. Last week the Conference had news of a novel organization called University Broadcasting Council. Set up in Chicago two years ago by the University of Chicago's Radio Director Allen Miller, the Council helps educators from Chicago, Northwestern and DePaul universities not only to solicit radio time and to split the expenses of broadcasting but also to write good scripts. With a $55,000 budget, Director Miller reported, the Council had provided its members with $300,000 worth of broadcasting service. Most popular Council program is the University of Chicago Round Table, in which chatty...