Word: solicited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student-run organization has been formed to save students the trouble of paying bills on the spot at restaurants and stores. Called the University Credit Club, Inc., the group has just begun to solicit students and merchants to participate in its pay-at-the-end-of-the-month plan. It is unaffiliated with the new University-sponsored Harvard Student Agencies...
...corporation to provide "earnings opportunities and growth" for student representatives who solicit on University properities was announced yesterday by Dustin M. Burke '52, general manager of the organization and director of Student Employment. The corporation, the Harvard Student Agencies, Inc., is designed to act as a central clearing house for all agencies which involve room-to-room solicitation...
...other Senators take the acclaim for his successes. He is reluctant to give advice to other Senators, seldom volunteers it, invariably-when pressed for it-prefaces the advice with a kind, nonpartisan "Well, coming from your state, I'd suggest you do . . ." Rarely has Russell been known to solicit a vote on any other than the merits of the case, and rarely does he present more than the basic argument. He assumes that the Senators, however young, however green, are intelligent enough to reach their own decisions. Says Dick Russell, gravely unassumingly, dispassionately: "I cover all the ground...
...there were 16,000 priestless parishes in 1950 v. 4,772 in 1903. One reason is the appalling poverty of the average country cure. Dependent upon handouts for food and fuel, he often spends the winters in near-starvation, and it is becoming increasingly common for parish priests to solicit odd jobs in the neighborhood-house-painting, plastering, milking or shoe-repairing-to supplement the meager dole of the church. U.S. Catholic parishes are accustomed to supporting their priests, but the French, whose government paid the priesthood until 1905, have been conditioned to thinking of this as the responsibility...
...minister of the Methodist Church last week. His imprudent and unministerial conduct had been to bring public charges that his bishop, the Rev. W. Angie Smith of Oklahoma City, had accepted fees in the form of "love gifts" for consecrating and dedicating churches, that he had allowed preachers to solicit funds for himself and his family, and that he had even permitted the superintendent of the Methodist Indian Mission Conference to solicit Indians for gifts of jewelry, saddles, beaded handbags...