Word: soliciting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able to pull many a patronage wire through Boss Farley, to the dismay of Michigan Congressmen. They rejoiced, if they did not assist, when the Detroit Free Press began to publish accusations against Collector Abbott: Deputy Collector John J. Tighe, his friend, had used his tax collecting credentials to solicit from Hugh J. Ferry, treasurer of Packard Motor Car Co., $50,000-$30,000 for the Democratic campaign deficit and $20,000 to lobby for PWA funds in Washington; other Abbott friends and appointees had "sold" postmasterships at $100 a head, had collected money to "assist" Michigan bankers...
Never one to solicit personal gifts, the President accepts those. which come to him. He might, however, seek to discourage a would-be donor who consults him in advance, as did Reader FitzPatrick.-ED. Cubans...
Startled by the boldness of the move, the industry scarcely knew whether to cheer, scoff or suspect. Was the Department of Commerce about to hand out $7,000,000 contracts to favored manufacturers? Was it going to solicit R. F. C. money for production of the Vidal "flivver?" Would it prescribe its ideal plane design for manufacturers to follow? Director Vidal hastened to squelch all such notions. His Department would simply look for customers for a $700 airplane, drop its findings into the industry's lap, let the industry do the rest. He added: "If favorable response...
...transport men recalled the case of a Midwestern line which five years ago lost a similar damage suit to a Negro. Immediately the line was deluged by Negro customers whom it finally discouraged by upping fares to a prohibitive price. Nowadays transport lines do not solicit Negro patronage, but they accept all passengers who apply...
...protection"' of bondholders is a big phrase in Depression. "Protective committees" are formed, they solicit holders of defaulted bonds to deposit their securities, they try by protest and lawsuit to collect-the expenses of the effort being charged against the bond owners. So many protective committees exist today that they have been called "the bellyaching racket." Even the proposed U. S. securities bill would create a corporation to protect U. S. holders of foreign bonds. And a committee was announced last week in London, to be headed by popular Sir Harry Armstrong, who retired in 1931 as British Consul...