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...method of collection of pledges. From the success of the Yale Budget drive it seemed that an intensive door-to-door canvass in the middle of October, backed by considerable publicity in the CRIMSON, might be the best sort of drive, but because of the difficulties that might arise from a sudden switch from the present method, the following compromise was suggested by Gene Keith, and I would recommend that it be adopted for next year. The regular pledges and collections will be made in Memorial Hall preceded by a sizeable article in the registration issue of the Crimson which...
Friends of the Governor said he plans to make his entry into Washington, after an official canvass on July 14, in typical O'Daniel style, escorted by his dome-topped sound truck (a replica of Texas' Capitol), his famed string band, and Texas Rose to sing the Governor's song, Beautiful Texas. Along the way, he expects to stop in Kansas, where he grew up, at Malta, Ohio, where he was born...
...headline mind reading act in a Berlin music hall. In a special meeting, Hitler rallied the biggest shots of Nazi Germany, who obligingly "gave . . . an impressive demonstration of a determined will for victory." To assure the people that all was well, Nazi ward-heelers started a house-to-house canvass...
...that the Editors of the Advocate make no attempt to secure the best undergraduate writing available at Harvard; the facts would indicate otherwise. In addition to three competitions held during the course of the year, which attract upwards of one hundred and fifty candidates, the magazine makes a further canvass of competition courses, seeking out their most capable work; and is responsible also for the Story Magazine fiction contest, which this year, for example, attracted some fifty contributions. That there can be possible objection to the material printed is readily granted; but the Editors of the Advocate, in choosing work...
...Greater Boston Community Fund will not conduct a room-to-room canvass for funds among undergraduates this year, but will be glad to receive contributions at the Fund headquarters in Wadsworth House, it was announced last night...