Word: solicited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, witty Dr. John C. A, Gerster, cancer specialist, advised women leaders of a drive for cancer hospital funds to solicit their bootleggers. Said he: ". . . Since they don't pay much in Government taxes maybe these congenial, piratical individuals can be persuaded to contribute to a public cause in this way." Dr. Gerster revealed that he "knew a man who knew Capone" but could hardly solicit him because his friend was "already tied up with Johns Hopkins...
Last week Publisher Delacorte and Editor Anthony announced Ballyhoo, a magazine which will not solicit advertising. It will appear on newsstands July 1 on a tentative fortnightly schedule. Editor Anthony, with free rein to be funny as he can, promised to plow the allegedly virgin field of advertising as a source of humor. (His announcement: "Read a FRESH magazine! All our editors are CELLOPHANE WRAPPED...
...Cardinals Hayes, O'Connell and Mundelein; Archbishop Curley of Baltimore, Bishop Shahan of Washington; Alfred Emanuel Smith and John Jacob Raskob; Michael J. Meehan, stockbroker, and James A. Flaherty, supreme councillor of the Knights of Columbus. One of the rogues, Jerome D. Kline, played with his own name. To solicit German Catholics he was Jerome D. Kline. To Irish Catholics he became "J. D. Kane...
Rosa Helen Ricchebuono, French-Canadian sister of a nun and two Catholic priests, lived obscurely with her hard-working husband Bernard in a cheap flat on Manhattan's dark, noisy Third Avenue, near 43rd Street. When Bernard would go out evenings to solicit insurance, big, broad-faced Rosa would wave a loving farewell to him from the window. One stifling summer night last year Bernard had gone out and Rosa, after a bath, was puttering about her kitchen in a loose gown. Through the open door strode a great, bullish...
...Obtained from the Post Office Department authorization to have postal employes solicit and collect relief funds...