Word: collecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There will be no screening process candidates will be put on the ballot if they collect 75 names on a petition...
Behind the pink, tubby façade of rich Clendenin John Ryan, the soul of the selfless public servant throbbed. Unlike many another son of privilege, he did not collect show girls; he devoted himself to business and the sober pursuit of turning rascals out of government...
...giving the DP program final approval ten days ago the Council had recommended that Houses collect $2200 among them and that the extra-curricular organizations subscribe the remaining $1000. But the House chairmen, meeting a week ago, insisted that they wanted each House to have its own DP and to collect all the money for him. They then checked back to their full committees, and yesterday reported unanimous approval of the program...
...Louis is me. There's nothing I wouldn't do for him." One thing he has done is to make sure that happy-go-lucky Louis Armstrong will never be in need. Should Satchmo have to lay down his gleaming horn tomorrow, Glaser says, he would collect $864 a month for life...
Indonesia is a specialty of Senator Malone, who was a member of the Senate Committee on Examination of Military Establishments in the Pacific during World War II. The committee traveled to the South Pacific last year to collect data for the Senate on the new republic...