Word: soliciting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...today could scarcely be less effective for their purpose than were they for theirs. Since they could not suppress it, ministers were obliged to enter the fight. Political scribbling, though loudly despised as a prostituted trade, became almost respectable when great men set up their own journals to solicit the popular voice. Readers in the coffee-houses in 1723 may well have marveled to find Bishop Hoadly in "The London Journal" and the Duko of Wharton in "The True Briten" abusing each other. In the end Walpole's defeat was the product of years of Bolingbroke's and Pulteney...
Appointed. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, Harvard Professor Clarence Henry Haring, President John Lenord Merrill of All America Cables, National Grand Councilor Francis P. Matthews of the Knights of Columbus, President Thomas John Watson of International Business Machines Corp.; by President Roosevelt; to solicit U. S. funds for a lighthouse in Santo Domingo in honor of Christopher Columbus; in Washington...
...undergraduates are warned that no man is allowed to solicit unless he displays the official University badge granted by the Business Office. All solicitors are members of the University. A contract from an unofficial solicitor gives the signer absolutely no certainty of fair treatment...
...hold badges from either the Crimson, Lampoon, or Advocate may not solicit for laundry, pressing, et cetera unless they hold additional credentials. Violations of this rule should be reported immediately to the publication involved...
With the drive scheduled to last through Friday, representatives will solicit from students in their rooms during the evenings. Text books used in elementary courses are especially needed...