Word: canvassing
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...goal of $4,500,000 which has been only half realized so far. The volunteers reported to Esty Foster '19, assistant dean of the School of Business Administration, and Edmund M. Morgan '02, Bussey Professor of Law, who transferred the names to the headquarters in Boston. The men will canvass all the business offices of the down-town district and each will endeavor to get ten pledges...
...committee is being formed this week from the wives of the Faculty to cover the officers of the University. They will begin their canvass next week which will cover all the departments of the College and the Graduate Schools...
...Treasury, told them he wanted them to collect at least $200,000,000 in back taxes which he estimated as outstanding. If they thought it would do any good he was primed to apply to the Civil Works Administration for funds to make a house-to-house canvass of the U. S. in an effort to catch tax dodgers at home...
...taxpayers had reason to be thankful that they did not live in Britain where the Government hires common informers (generally discharged employes) to tattle on tax evaders. Payment to common informers in 1933 was ?535 ($2,675), far less costly than a house-to-house canvass by CWA workers...
...News. Publisher Kelley got his paper started by selling stock at $5 a share to Harlem notables like Bishop R. C. Lawson, Alderman John W. Smith, Mortician Rodney Dade; white politicians like Tammany District Leader Thomas F. Murray; and to ordinary residents of Harlem reached by door to door canvass. In appearance, the tabloid Citizen looks like a compromise between the dignified Evening Post and the blatant Daily Mirror. Last week's front pages contained, not pictures, but stories of a specially lively shooting in a Harlem cabaret, a Brooklyn fire in which eight Negroes perished. First issues...