Word: collect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were being swindled out of at least $1,500,000 a year by "ministers" who had obtained their credentials by mail. Apparently anyone could purchase documents which, so far as the letter of the law was concerned, empowered him to set up a church, perform marriages, officiate at funerals, collect fees from his followers...
From 212,000 essays, the judges last fortnight unanimously chose that of Lloyd Lewis, 17, of Plattsburg, Mo. Comedian Cantor excitedly hopped to a long distance telephone, called Lloyd Lewis from class, congratulated him, summoned him to Manhattan. When Winner Lewis arrived last week to collect his scholarship, he delighted Comedian Cantor by making first-rate human interest copy. Big-eared, slick-haired, sloe-eyed, and looking not un like his benefactor, Lloyd told how he had written his essay between chores on his father's 100-acre farm, how his Plattsburg teachers had dismissed it as "only fair...
With two veteran pitchers, Bill Gannett and John DeBettencourt, who is scheduled to start, the Lions can place a large share of their hopes in the continued silencing of the Crimson bats, able to collect only five solid blows in their last appearance Thursday...
Fletcher, in announcing the organization of the research council, emphasized the fact that the professors had not been chosen because of partisan reasons but "to collect basic information on which national policies may be formulated...
...difference between the new G.O.P. research council and the New Deal's Brain Trust is that the Republican group has been chosen merely to collect information and publish factual results based on research studies, while the Brain Trust is a group which administers a series of preconceived ideas. Only research and fact finding will be the function of the newly formed body