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Bends will be sold at the entrances of the four House dining halls. In addition, a room-to-room canvass will be conducted in November. Series E bonds bought up to and including December 31 will be counted in the current drive quota...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phillips Brooks House to Sell Bonds in Final Victory Drive | 10/23/1945 | See Source »

...traditional method whereby British parties assess their vote is based on a personal canvass of voters in each constituency immediately after the election campaign opens, again in the middle of the campaign, and finally just before voting. On polling day, it is customary for checkers at the polling booths to ask each voter for his polling number, which gives a clue to his name and address in the electoral register. These checkers often find out from the voter whom he has voted for. The ballot is secret, but many voters, especially Laborites, are quite willing to reveal their vote. Estimates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Seismic Tremors | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

Purchases in the winter and spring terms doubled those of the preceding summer and were accomplished without the aid of the customary room-to-room canvass, but by sales in the dining halls alone, Adams House topping its closest rival, Lowell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SALE OF BONDS PASSES $32,000 | 6/21/1945 | See Source »

...Canvass of Industry. Taub and his FEA engineers went to work, made their first stop in the front office of U.S. industry. To one leading company in each of 52 basic industries, they posed this question: how much would it cost to put an economically feasible unit of your industry in China, capable of affecting China's economy nationally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: China's Plan | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...latest figures from Adams show $1050 in bond sales and $95 in stamps. Dan C. Cohen '45, director of the War Service Committee for the Gold Coasters, has, like the Lowell chairman, conducted the sales at the Dining Hall, without resorting to a room-to-room canvass or any other sales methods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIVILIAN BOND DRIVES CLOSED | 12/15/1944 | See Source »

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