Word: collection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Kissam Vanderbilt, financier: "It was announced that I would embark on my palatial yacht, the Ara, with a party of friends, to undertake a cruise halfway round the world to study the ocean's bottom and the currents, to collect marine specimens for my museum on Long Island. It was recalled that the last yachtsman to undertake a serious oceanographic research was the late Prince Albert of Monaco, whose extensive labors were rewarded with the Agassiz gold medal of the National Academy of Science...
...through the streets, to be welcomed at the Grand Hall as guests of the Norwegian Government; had been addressed on individual morals in politics by Fridtjof Nansen, famed explorer, scientist, statesman, author; had elected, as President of their Congress, Virginia Gildersleeve,* Dean of Barnard College, Manhattan; had resolved to collect a $1,000,000 fund for international fellowships for university women; had been entertained 'by the American Legation, by Queen Maud at her country estate near Christiania, by the Christiania Municipality; had received telegraphic congratulations from Charles E. Hughes, Ramsay MacDonald, Lady Astor and many another...
...semi-official nature of this enterprise is evident in all the provisions made. By arrangement with the Government, the coalition will be allowed to collect licensing dues, and also subscription dues, or annual fees, from those who have receiving sets to get the benefit of the radiocasting. The Government reserves the right to use the radiocasting stations during the hours of 1 to 2 and 7 to 8 (p. m.) daily. Doubtless, although Mr. Hammond did not say so, the Government will exercise a strict censorship and employ radiocasting for propaganda purposes. Having obtained complete subservience of the press, Mussolini...
Most Protestant Churches collect many millions for what is called Home Missions. These are Christian enterprises which can be conducted better by a national organization than by local churches (as, for example, care of immigrants, Indians, "poor whites"). Part of the work is assistance of small parishes which cannot provide for their own spiritual nutriment...
...collect a national anti-exclusion campaign fund...