Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of men have been chosen by the Phillips Brooks House Association to collect the contributions for their annual fall drive, which started yesterday. This drive, in which cast-off clothing is particularly requested, is being stressed this year as a possible means of helping the unemployed. The men will go to all the dormitories, collecting contributions they may find within them...
...Obtained from the Post Office Department authorization to have postal employes solicit and collect relief funds...
...there are only about one and three-quarters wild ducks left for every U. S. citizen. Inspired by the British system whereby game birds have increased 900% since the War, Mr. Knapp has formulated a plan for farmers to raise wild fowl, use their spare lands for feeding places, collect from hunters who come to their farms to shoot. Each bird will be banded, may be marketed. The selling of hunted wild fowl is now prohibited by all the States...
...love of Italy, my worship of memories, my aspirations toward heroism, my presentiment of my country's future ? they are all revealed here in every line, in every note of color. Here, too, are my books, not kept to collect dust, but as living entities, and perhaps no solitary student has ever had so many. As death will give my body to my beloved Italy, so let me be permitted to preserve the best of my life in this offering to Italy...
...General Motors), Walter Percy Chrysler, Alvan Macauley (Packard), Du Bois Young (Hupp), William J. McAneeny (Hudson), Edward S. Evans (Detroit Aircraft); 3) got a promise of 1,000 "rotating" jobs per week from big merchants; 4) rotated 400 jobless per day on municipal construction; 5) used the schools to collect clothes to help the needy...