Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SPRINGFIELD, MASS, went all out to raise $1,198,750, the largest sum it ever collected in a voluntary drive. Six thousand volunteers went from door to door, decorated store windows, took part in rallies for shops and factories...
...streets last week, practically every electric power and telephone pole bore Red Feather placards and the slogan "Give." Over the two local radio stations, at 30-minute intervals, sounded one loud knock, then seven more knocks, and finally a voice saying, "You'd rather have your door knocked once than seven times, wouldn't you? Give to the Community Chest!" (The knocks referred to the seven local agencies for which funds were being sought...
...closeness of this year's Presidential, race has fanned their activity to an intensity unmatched in recent years. The worst of political action, door-to-door canvassing, has been brightened by new group techniques. The HYRC canvassing core, led by Nathaniel Bond '56, Warren Dillon '56, Robert Roger '55 and Gerry Wolff '54, teamed up with lady Republicans from neighboring colleges. Converging on one town each night, they plugged Eisenhower-Nixon in pairs in what they called "Operation Sweeping Victory." Weekend dates and even some full blown romances have come out of this coeducational canvassing...
...eighty Amherst men in Political Science 27, given only in the fall of election years, field work is the "core of the course." During the campaign period demands on their time are "almost limitless." They send out campaign literature, write speeches, and canvass door-to-door instead of reading about politics in textbooks...
...cylinder engine), will push the car up to around 100 m.p.h. Bill Newberg, who boosted Dodge from eighth to sixth place last year, is raising 1953 production schedules by 25%, to 312,000 cars. Said he: "We'll be knocking on the sales door right behind the first three...