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According to the fund office, there was no definite assignment of solicitation among University employees, and the method of collection has not been revealed, but the drive spokesman said that there had been a "thorough system of canvass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $5,866.75 GIVEN UNOFFICIALLY TO COMMUNITY FUND | 2/12/1938 | See Source »

Richard Solomon '39 outlined a plan for a membership drive which, he claimed would bring in at least 150 new members into the organization. Revealing at the same time that the present total is 235, he said that the plan involved a door-to-door canvass of each member of the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT UNION PLANS JOINING PEACE STRIKE | 2/11/1938 | See Source »

Reports from Radford, Virginla, yesterday turned the search for the missing William Burgess to the South, as police in that city said that a man answering his description had been identified by three people, as he sold magazines in a door-to-door canvass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Clues Fail to Clarify Gould Case; Burgess Seen in Virginia | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...them are as follows: a total of $2885.30 was collected in Harvard University last May and June, in a drive sponsored and organized by the Boston Chapter of the Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy. A student committee raised this sum, chiefly by means of a room to room canvass in which the appeal was made to send an ambulance to Spain. The money was forwarded to the national headquarters of the Medical Bureau in New York. Of the total sum, the committee believes that roughly $2463.00 can be assigned to the ambulance itself, as itemized below. Factory cost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Council Report Gives Result of Investigation Into Ambulance | 11/5/1937 | See Source »

...submit to A. F. of L. rule. But dark hints of expulsion at next week's convention have been emanating from A. F. of L. leaders for months, and John L. Lewis last week summoned his C. I. O. leaders to meet in Atlantic City next fortnight "to canvass the work of organization and consider reports upon its administration affairs and policies." That could mean only one thing: C. I. O. was ready to set itself up permanently as an undisguised A. F. of L. rival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Old Men Go West | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

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