Word: solicited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...student who has taken the General Examinations this spring should consider himself excused from any final course examinations unless he receives from the properly designated authority in his field of concentration a list of such examinations. Students are warned not to solicit excuses from individual instructors in courses; a student who absents himself from a final course examination without official excuse from the designated authority in the field of concentration will lose credit for the course, and may fall to receive his degree...
...Many a U. S. rabbi was shocked last week to hear that one of his fellows was bringing Kaddish into court. In Joplin, Mo. last May died Louis Bormaster, shoe merchant. To conduct the ritual prayers the family got Rabbi Harry Wolf, who had come from St. Louis to solicit funds for the Poor Orphans Home of Jerusalem. Day after Merchant Bormaster's death, Rabbi Wolf gave this up and began the prayers. Daily, for nearly seven months, Rabbi Wolf would intone: ". . . Deevroh Be'olmoh Rabbo Sh'mai Veyiskadash Yisgadal" (Magnified and sanctified be His Great Name...
...months ago William Esty, 37, left the advertising agency of J. (for James) Walter Thompson Co. to start in business for himself. He employed a staff of experts and had "William Esty & Co. Inc." painted on his office door. Then he went out to solicit business, turning down small accounts, gunning for big ones...
...easy thing to solicit funds. Perhaps I have done that sort of thing more in my life than most people and, on the other hand, I have had considerable experience being solicited myself. Viewing the picture from both sides, there are three things ... for a solicitor to remember and do. "First, of course, to be able to state the purpose of the solicitation and give the essential facts. . . . Second, to be able to state what the gifts of other people are. Each one of us likes to know what other people in our group, or our kind, are doing...
Ziff Co. was established twelve years ago by William Bernard Ziff, now 34. Starting with the Chicago Defender he built up a large clientele of Negro publications whose efforts to solicit national advertising are hampered by "Jim Crow" rules in some Southern office buildings, tacit prejudice elsewhere. Most Negro newspapers are too indigent to maintain traveling representatives. One of Adman Ziff's first tasks was to persuade Negro publishers to audit their circulations accurately. In some cases he paid for the auditing himself...