Word: canvassing
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...University of Chicago, where 65% of the students are totally or partially selfsupporting, 1,500 were granted college loans this year, twice as many as in previous years. The university has hunted student jobs by telephone and a house-to-house canvass, has instituted training courses to fit the students for the work obtained for them. More prosperous students have raised a fund for use in cases of extreme need...
Next day in 1,300 U. S. towns and cities under the direction of Col. Frank Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, an army of men and women set out on a house-to-house canvass to get people to spend or invest their money in some way. "We are an employment agency for idle dollars," said Col. Knox. "If the owners of idle, hidden dollars do not want to employ them in normal ways. Uncle Sam will give them a job-and pay them wages...
...direct primaries in Wisconsin cost $802,659. They intensify a practice which has already begun to prevail under the convention system of conducting an elaborate preliminary canvass for nomination. Perhaps this is inevitable under present conditions, but anything that tends to increase the personal expenses of an election is unfortunate and perhaps the tendency toward self-nomination is not altogether beneficial...
Long before Richelieu wound his armies through the Valtelline or Champaigne thrashed his first brush across a canvass an equally famous man cast his shadow on the history of England. Becket was a soldier who became the greatest archbishop of his time and faced the boldest king that England knew. And for all this he died, slain in his own Cathedral. But one doesn't really know Becket until he has left his histories and turned to another of the arts. A poet has left behind a picture of him as clear and brilliant as the painter's Richelieu. Tennyson...
...executive secretary of the Northern Convention, came inquiries last spring from James Hughes Anderson, rich businessman of Knoxville, Tenn. who has tithed his wealth, in increasing amounts, to his church. Mr. Anderson, most potent of Southern laymen, wished to know about the successful Yankee "Every Member Canvass" scheme. Soon Northern President Jones was touring the South, helping the brethren promote their canvass. So enthusiastic was the Baptist Association of the District of Columbia, whose churches support both conventions equally, that it memorialized the Northerners for reunion. This, a matter for committee consideration, is not likely to result in any organic...