Word: soliciting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time an effort has been made to settle disaster claims en masse by reviewing the damages and having the defendant put up an amount to cover them." As for raising the money, Archbishop Cody says the archdiocese has "a moral obligation" to borrow from banks rather than solicit Chicago parishes...
Broadening Choice. Mohn grew rich by adapting to West Germany a U.S. success: the mass-market book club. He persuaded the closely bound fraternity of 5,000 book dealers and door-to-door book salesmen to solicit memberships by offering the solicitors plump 41½% commissions on each volume sold to any member they signed up. While his competitors concentrated on small editions of intellectual literature, Mohn brought out volumes with mass appeal from encyclopedias to schmalz. Applications rolled in-80% of them from young people who had never before read books outside of school. Mohn now has four clubs...
Lawyers all agree that poor people are entitled to an attorney when they get into trouble. But how to get lawyer and litigant together? Many people do not know of their rights, and the American Bar Association's Canons forbid lawyers to solicit employment...
...unusual for a defendant to claim that he was trapped into committing a crime. Often he is speaking the truth, at least by his own lights. Law enforcement officers regularly "solicit" criminal activity by playing up to homosexuals, using decoy letters to trap postal thieves, making narcotics "buys," and getting their pockets picked. Entrapment, in fact, was the chief defense in a trial that closed in Manhattan last week. The case concerned the three men who were arrested last February in a bizarre conspiracy to blow up the Statue of Liberty (TIME...
...magazine will solicit articles and photo essays from contributors both inside and outside Harvard. "Cambridge 38 has always been the best way of recruiting people to the Yearbook," Dunham said...