Word: solicited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Washington hostess will fill her house when she asks her friends to meet Admiral and Mrs. Bristol. The financier will forego the last golf of summer to talk out a cigar with the Admiral, privately. The heads of great churches will solicit conferences. And each of Admiral Bristol's public utterances in this country will be cabled to every chancellor of Europe...
Have you been asked, or have you volunteered to solicit funds for a cause in which you are interested? Do you feel reluctant to do such soliciting...
...Beggars solicit you with hard luck stories. Do you give them money...
President Niedringhaus failed to answer the letter or promise reforms of alleged abuses. The committee then resolved to circularize the stockholders and solicit their proxies, with the purpose of voting a new board of directors into power at the company's annual meeting on Mar. 10. Whereupon President Niedringhaus, himself, sent a letter stockholders. In it he declared that the six men forming the committee, despite their assertion that they held 30,000 shares of stock among them, were none of them stockholders of record as of Jan. 30, 1925; that, if they hold stock, it has been acquired...
Prof. Takayanagi of Tokyo University,* in the U. S. to solicit funds for his alma mater, knocked not in vain at the door of John D. Rockefeller Jr. He had asked for financial aid on behalf of his university library, which was partially destroyed by the great Earthquake of 1923 (TIME, Sept. 10, 1923, et seq.), and in which 800,000 books were destroyed...