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When Pastor Anderson went to the hospital, Garden City South roused itself in neighborliness. The neighbor who did most to get the others started was Mrs. Thomas Skelly, a Roman Catholic. She organized a committee to canvass the neighborhood. A "Pastor Anderson Fund" was established at St. Andrew's. West Hempstead and Garden City Catholics and Jews pitched in along with Lutherans, Presbyterians, Methodists, Congregationalists and others. Though Mrs. Anderson soon got a teaching job nearby, St. Andrew's handed her five months of her husband's salary, and let her have the parsonage rent-free...
Hall expressed hope that the support he received on his canvass will overcome all pressure groups, including "television networks as well as political, alumni, and all other selfish interests...
...HYRC Canvass...
...World. In Manhattan, the Pal Blade Co. abandoned hope of organizing a female barbershop quartet after a city-wide canvass turned up only two lady barbers...
...government contracts. Last month, without waiting to see whom President Aleman would name as candidate of the all-powerful Party of Revolutionary Institutions (PRI), the general launched his campaign. He plastered the capital? with posters proclaiming, "Henriquez Guzmán-Candidate of the People," and set out to canvass the country...