Word: soliciting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They may contribute funds (i.e., $100 for the Jackson Day dinner, Jan. 8), but may not solicit or receive money for political purposes...
...belligerent's vessel. 6) No U. S. merchant ship may be armed. 7) No U. S. citizen or corporation may buy, sell or exchange bonds, securities, etc. of any belligerent state-ordinary commercial and go-day credits exempted. 8) No person in the U. S. may solicit or receive funds for any belligerent state named. 9) If the President believes a ship leaving a U. S. port is carrying men, arms or supplies to a belligerent warship, but has insufficient evidence to stop its departure, he shall require the shipmaster to give a bond in any amount...
Before each issue is read it is a mint of worthwhile information, but what in the world good are several hundred copies in my basement ? I can give them away ... or better, solicit TIME'S help, among its readers, for a better, more profitable method of disposition. Is there some rich, retired seaman, or world-traveler, who would like an index of all these books, willing to pay for them, ship them to some far away place...
...defraud. According to Assistant U. S. Attorney Leo Fennelly, who has helped run down many a noted swindler (including Banker Joseph Harriman), Promoter Bob had sunk so low he had taken to selling gold bricks. In 1932 he acquired Bankers Service Co., which was founded in 1908 to solicit accounts for savings banks and which he turned to investment counseling. Its chief counsel, according to the charge, was to advise suckers to switch their investments to two virtually defunct gold mines Promoter Bob owned. In Coronado Gold Mines, Inc. suckers lost $250,000; in Kelly Gold & Silver Mines...
...student body as a whole have responded generously to the request for contributions. A collector has been appointed for each house but the committee in charge has decided not to solicit; all contributions have been voluntary in response to literature which was distributed...