Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With 140 per cent of its quota already collected, the Harvard Community Fund Campaign will continue its drive until Thursday following the example of the Greater Boston Fund...
...Harvard campaign headquarters at Wadsworth House announced that the campaign in the University is way ahead of schedule and progressing nicely despite the apparent lag of contributions to the Greater Boston Fund which has necessitated an extension of the drive...
Although no official confirmation has come from University Hall or Dean Landis, the screws are believed to have been put on as part of a campaign to better Harvard's relations with Cambridge by forestalling any popular misconception that law students hold wild all-night orgies in their rooms...
...salesmen. They earn their pay mostly in towns of 15,000 to 500,000. In Podunk, for instance, which has never heard any music better than the high-school band, a salesman calls on the local bigwiggery and the clubwomen, cajoles them into a week's fund-raising campaign to put Podunk on the musical map. When Podunk's committee has the money in the bank, the salesman checks over Columbia's list of appropriately-priced artists. For these, Podunkians pay list prices. But Judson's artists get a good deal less. Community...
...months Chicago's LaSalle Street has buzzed with rumors that stormy, exuberant General Robert Elkington Wood was about to resign as president of Sears, Roebuck & Co. and campaign for public office, possibly the Presidency of the U. S. Sears has a rule that executives must retire at 60; the rambunctious General is 59 and no man to twiddle his thumbs...