Word: collection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlanta, Ga., as a trade centre, "Gateway to the South." The campaign cost $250,000, and it has succeeded. In ten months, 136 new concerns went to Atlanta, and 4,630 persons. The communal payroll increased by $7,000,000 yearly. Pleased, Atlanta businessmen began last week to collect $1,000,000 to continue this national advertising of their city for another three years...
Nathan Straus, 78, merchant-philanthropist: "To rouse Boston Jews into giving towards the $7,500,000 which United Palestine Appeal fund wants to collect before next June, I reminded them last week that 'the Rockefellers, both father and son, are devoting their millions to help the welfare of mankind, while a man like Henry Ford has engaged in a campaign against the Jewish people.' Then I added, 'If he submitted the facts to a committee of ten men of unimpeachable character, ministers and laymen, he would be fully convinced of the justice of my claim...
Shrewd, canny, hard to wheedle, the tax collector of Duisburg yielded only after much persuasion. From "ordinary singers" he is empowered to collect a 20% municipal tax on concert receipts; from "well-known singers" he may collect only...
Students are urged by the Phillips Brooks House to aid this charity by contributing old books, old hats, old suits, or any of their unnecessary heirlooms. Anything antedated is legitimate prey for the social service men. Trucks will call at each dormitory to collect the booty...
...managers left last night to have the New Haven dressing room ready for occupancy when the team arrives. And after the game, when the players are celebrating the breaking of training, and the University as a whole is finding it hard to settle down, these managers will have to collect and bring back to camp all the remains...