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...that does your bidding," he once said, and he watched them win or get mowed down. He turned parts of his Hudson Valley estate at Rhinebeck, N.Y. into a model farm, parts into a holiday home for invalid children. He kicked off and often led a house-to-house canvass of tenements built on his land, urged New York police to crack down on lawbreaking landlords. In later years, during Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's social-reform surge, he demolished slum tenements by the dozen, sold others to New York City on easy terms...
...Horace W. Frost '32, of Cambridge, has been named chairman of the Greater Boston Radcliffe Appeal, which will canvass most of eastern Massachusetts. "This area includes more than 5500 of the 18,000 alumnae and friends of Radcliffe," Mrs. Frost observed yesterday. "We have an enthusiastic group of workers and we anticipate a very successful campaign," she added...
...United Fund of Greater Boston, the charity soliciting agency for United Community Services, needs Harvard and Radcliffe volunteers to canvass local precincts in its annual all-inclusive drive that aids mental hospitals, orphanages and dozens of other charitable institutions...
There can be no question, I think, that in these eighty-five years successive editors have built for the HARVARD CRIMSON a strong place in Harvard College. Although I can't vouch that a canvass of the Faculty would bring an overwhelming paean of praise for the CRIMSON, I believe that the Faculty owes a large debt of gratitude to the CRIMSON, probably greater than it realizes. Faculty members would, I think, almost universally commend the paper for its occasional "feature articles." They would, I suspect, be less complimentary about the editorials on subjects of which they have special knowledge...
Radcliffe College has announced a nation-wide canvass of all alumnae as part of its recently intensified ten million dollar fund drive. The program will be spearheaded by appeals from President Wilbur K. Jordan, key alumnae, and members of the administration, to all alumnae clubs within the next six months...