Word: canvassing
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...Rogers. "A strange, dangerous, intolerable thing," echoed the Boston Record. But the tax-paying public, once it got the point that only tax-dodgers need fear the ringing doorbell, seemed well pleased with "Operation Snoop," as the press called it. Last week, when the tabulation of the two-day canvass was reported, it looked like a tax-collector's dream. Out of 8,800 New Englanders questioned, 1,150 (13%) confessed delinquencies, and dug up $80,000 in overlooked taxes. Other queasy, uncanvassed delinquents sent in an additional $162,000. The service, which spent $10,250 in salaries...
...dearth of sopranos able to sing the demanding lead in Verdi's Aïda. At noon on the day of a performance, Covent Garden learned that Soprano Gré Brouwenstijn had a case of laryngitis. By 1:30 Conductor Sir John Barbirolli and the opera management had made a quick canvass of the countryside without flushing an available soprano, finally began calling the Continent...
...eighty Amherst men in Political Science 27, given only in the fall of election years, field work is the "core of the course." During the campaign period demands on their time are "almost limitless." They send out campaign literature, write speeches, and canvass door-to-door instead of reading about politics in textbooks...
Others, who help groups like the C.I.O. Political Action Committee canvass workers in nearby textile mills, got to sit in on confidential strategy meetings of labor leaders, as they discuss the candidates...
...Bartlett, a conscientious and friendly Juneau politico. But Bartlett, who had a 4-to-1 edge last time, won this year by a margin of only 4 to 3 over Republican Bob Reeve, a bluff and hearty Anchorage bush pilot who flew north in his own DC-3 to canvass the "canoe vote." The Democrats lost control of the territorial legislature: the G.O.P., which had won only 5 out of 24 seats in the 1948 election, grabbed 21 out of 24 last week, plus six of the nine seats at stake in the territorial senate...