Word: collections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purge (TIME, July 8) which started this wave of self-criticism was also going strong. Among its recent targets: "medical racketeers," housing officials who "systematically extorted bribes from working people in need of rooms," and managers caught red-handed in the "antiState practice of falsifying reports" in order to collect bonuses for nonexistent production...
...small percentage of Law School students who contributed was attributed in part to the faulty collection of pledge cards, which were presented to the men in their classrooms last Thursday. In some cases, nobody was on hand after class to collect these cards, and Campbell announced that any Law students who wished to turn in pledges, but were unable to do so Thursday, should take or mail their cards to Phillips Brooks House...
...poor woman without resources put a stone in the pot to feed her children, telling the kids to collect firewood and huff-puff for boiling. The kids did. The kids asked for food, and Mama said, 'Wait, wait and huff-puff more,' and the kids did. Later the kids poked the stone with a stick and found it very hard. The kids told Mama, 'You've said wait, wait and we are hungry.' So saying, they ran away, found food and never returned...
...what authority does the current Council limit the right to referendum to those demon reformers who can collect 500 names on a petition? By what right does it limit the powers of proposing and ratifying amendments to its own membership? Merely because 17 members of a Student Council guessed that these provisos were equitable ten years ago? Even then they were not convinced. Reports claim that these back-room sessions were "smoke-filled and heated." But while the document lay on a table in Phillips Brooks House for thirty days, waiting for someone to raise an objection (which would have...
...first shrewd step in 1927, after a turn as a cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times, was to join Vincent Lopez' orchestra. ("It was tough. I had never been in a dance hall in my life. I had lots to unlearn about music.") He soon unlearned enough to collect six Spanish musicians and book himself as a relief band in Los Angeles' gaudy Cocoanut Grove. Bashful couples were afraid of his Latin rhythms, so he hired a half-dozen tango experts to whirl unescorted ladies around the floor ("If women learned, their boy friends naturally...