Word: solicited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orpheum circuit," usually spending a week in one place, sometimes two or three if they were popular. Most places were two-girl houses; some had only one, a few three. Each house was run by a madam whose job was to rent the apartment, hire a maid, solicit customers...
...banks suffer from low current interest rates, find it difficult to make trust funds of $20,000 or less selfsupporting. New York banks try to keep their minimum trust funds closer to $50,000. But they cannot get too haughty about taking little accounts because their advertisements solicit a general trust business. Trustee fees vary according to the State, the Courts, the local customs. In New York, banks get from 1 ½% to 3% of both principal and income, the percentage depending on the size of each.† Sometimes big estates pay less than standard rates, but this practice...
...Congressional Directory claims to be a "graduate of the University of Hard Knocks," came a still harder knock: Son Charles flunked the entrance examination at West Point. Last week a jury in a District of Columbia courtroom, where the Hoeppels, father & son, were on trial for conspiracy to solicit a bribe, heard what became of the West Point appointment. James W. Ives, a handsome Olympic athlete from Baltimore, who had played football at Johns Hopkins, took the stand and swore as follows...
...Bolton '39, Edward W. Schoyer '39, and Peter F. Cunningham '39, will also have charge of the drive for old clothes which is soon to commence through the Yard. In connection with this baskets are to be placed in each entry of every dormitory and a resident appointed to solicit cast-off garments...
Miss duPont has permission from the Mayor of Cambridge to set up a stand anywhere in the city and solicit signatures for a month. She plans to start in Harvard Square, either in front of the Harvard Trust Company or on the corner of Dunster Street and Massachusetts Avenue, Monday morning...