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...start the corporation its sponsors want $50,000,000, to be contributed from those who will benefit most. Realtor Day was selected to canvass the building industries around New York, report to the bankers in a month...
...Each club shall request its graduate members to consider it a point of honor not to canvass any undergraduate in any way before the opening of College in his Sophomore year...
Since 1914 the undergraduate clubs have agreed that their members will not canvass members of the Freshman class and that they will not elect any undergraduate before the fourth Monday after the opening of College in his Sophomore year, and that no pledge or promise from any Sophomore shall be accepted before the Friday following the fourth Monday...
...boasted, more radical than he. As they aged, they even came to look alike. As his silent partner she exercised great influence over Wisconsin politics and he affectionately referred to her as "the counselor," fondly recalled "when we were Governor." She stumped for him during his Presidential canvass of 1924, made many a vote with her sound political sense. Stateswoman though she was, she would never accept public office. When Senator La Follette died in 1925, she refused. Progressive pleadings to take his seat at the Capitol, designated "Young Bob" as his father's successor, continued to serve...
...private debts, solely a relationship between debtors and creditors." A young Negro couple called at the White House to ask the President to marry them "if he wasn't busy." Some potent Senators and Representatives with whom he had failed to consult in his first canvass of Congressional opinion fortnight ago were miffed at his apparent neglect. To soothe their pride and keep them friendly he despatched personal messages to each and every member of the 72nd Congress with this request: "If you are favorable to the proposal, it would undoubtedly aid in the negotiations now in progress...