Word: solicitation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Columbia University has had for the last two years an undergraduate homophile association which, since the Fall of 1968, has set up a table at registration along with many other Columbia organizations to solicit new members...
...tried to pressure the company to stop bomb production by staging demonstrations at plants. Pillsbury did not participate in the picketing. Instead, last month he filed suit in a Minneapolis court to win the right to inspect the list of Honeywell's other shareholders. He wants to solicit their proxies for Honeywell's April 28 annual meeting, with the aim of electing at least one director who would vote to stop the manufacture of bombs...
...Consciously or not, Pillsbury is staging a trial run for an idea of Saul Alinsky's, the radical organizer. Alinsky says that he is trying to induce "some leading left-wing economists and emancipated corporation executives" to help him form an organization called Proxies for People. It would solicit proxies from foundations, mutual funds, union welfare funds, churches and universities, and vote them to compel corporations to pursue such social goals as ending pollution. Alinsky says that he is getting voluntary proxies every day from individual sympathizers-and telephone calls from worried and presumably unemancipated corporation executives sounding...
...dozens of other mutual funds to incorporate "offshore," the tax-dodging criticism has lost much of its sting. Last June, I.O.S. quietly shifted its legal domicile to Canada. European bankers who once sneered at Cornfeld's brash ways have lately begun to copy his sales methods and solicit his business...
Four student leaders in AROTC are drafting a letter to solicit support from Harvard students...