Word: solicited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...satisfaction Senator Barkley did get before the Relief bill finally passed out of his hands to conference with the House. To Senator Hatch's amendments strengthening the House provisions against Politics-in-Relief, he added a clause making it illegal for any person to solicit campaign money from any Government employe, local, State or Federal, any part of whose pay comes from a Congressional appropriation. This was in memory of the Federal-aid highway men with whom Governor "Happy" Chandler so bitterly fought Mr. Barkley for Kentucky's nomination last summer...
Permission to solicit students was granted by the Student Council in view of the pressing need of the Fund and the desire to have Harvard contribute as generously as possible and as a corporate entity. The Council on their part voted $600 for the drive...
...That Federal relief recipients and dispensers alike be forbidden to contribute any money whatsoever to political campaign funds, and relief executives be forbidden to coerce or solicit such funds, or have others do it for them...
Federal Judge William Clark recently dusted off Mayor Hague by specifically enjoining him to let C.I.O. organizers (and other dissenters from the established Hague order) speak, solicit members, carry placards and otherwise exercise their Constitutional rights in Jersey City. Politico Lewis declared it high time to throw all Hagues out of the Democratic Party, to arrange a genuinely liberal political alignment...
...Section 208, Title 18 of the Federal criminal code declares it unlawful for any Senator, Representative, "officer or employee of the United States" to solicit political funds "from any other such officer, employee or person." Last week while Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey was in Europe, letters over his signature to all WPA workers in Pennsylvania (270,000 of them) solicited campaign funds. Chairman Sheppard of the Senate campaign funds committee said, "At first blush I can't see where this comes under our resolution." Then he blushed again, called a committee meeting to cogitate Senator Guffey...