Word: soliciting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Student and Alumni publications may solicit subscription for a limited period provided they first receive permits from the University...
...primary day approached, Governor Johnson's adherents cried that Senator Costigan was having people dropped from relief rolls for failing to solicit votes for Candidate Roche. Senator Costigan denounced the Johnsonite Denver Post for its "nauseating campaign of unwarranted invective and deception." But Colorado Democrats gave Governor Johnson a 7-to-6 majority over the first female aspirant for his office. Nate C. Warren of Fort Collins was the Republican chosen to oppose...
...while the rule may seem insignificant, and its violation unimportant, yet when this violation becomes wholesale it of necessity leads to much injustice. Those concerns whose representatives solicit in the dormitories gain a great advantage over those more scrupulous who do not, and who lose a great part of that custom they might have obtained on merit, were all other considerations equal. Is it then right that they should be thus penalized for adhering to the letter of the law, while their less fastidious rivals reap their ill-gotten gains? Those who hunger and thirst after righteousness are not speedily...
...happy years Tubize (now Tubize Chatillon Corp.) made rayon yarn at Hopewell. By last April, when labor troubles first visited Tubize Chatillon, it was third largest manufacturer of this material in the U. S. Then a United Textile Workers' Union was formed at Hopewell, began to solicit members. The company objected to the method of solicitation. Its workers, it claimed, were thrashed if they refused to join up. Some non-union employes were not allowed to enter or leave their homes. Others the company undertook to smuggle out of town for their own safety...
...Governor Langer's Non-Partisan League proper. While his enemies bitterly cried for his defeat as "a convicted criminal." William Langer stood on his record. Was it not better, asked friends of "the poor man's Governor," to accept campaign funds from the rank-&-file than to solicit them from rich corporations which would expect fat State favors? On their ballots. North Dakotans, rich & poor, thundered "Yes!" Governor Langer was renominated with 115,000 votes, a majority of 15,000 over all other candidates, including Democrats...