Word: solicited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inspired, perhaps, by the recent activities of Attorney General John Mitchell's wife Martha, Mrs. John Bell Williams went before the TV cameras in Jackson, Miss., to solicit funds for mental-health programs. "As wife of your Governor," she began, "I am constantly aware of the need for this help...
...Alinsky proposal to help the middle class seize its share of power is Proxies for People, a group that will solicit proxies to be used at stockholders' meetings. This organization would put pressure on corporations to stop polluting the environment or to support such social causes as better mass transportation. If enough concerned stockholders show up at annual meetings, contends Alinsky, corporations will eventually have to rent Yankee Stadium to accommodate them all and will hardly be able to ignore their demands. Proxies for People, he thinks, would restore an "adventure in living to the dead majority, and might...
Pusey's successor will be selected by the seven-man Harvard Corporation, which consists of Pusey, the university treasurer and five fellows. The decision must be approved by the 32 members of the Board of Overseers. Corporation Fellow Francis H. Burr, a Boston lawyer, will solicit suggestions from every segment of the Harvard community -overseers, alumni, faculty, students and perhaps even employees. "The search," he says, "will be as broad as possible and as unstructured as I can make...
Columbia University has had for the last two years an undergraduate homophile association which, since the Fall of 1968, has set up a table at registration along with many other Columbia organizations to solicit new members...
...Consciously or not, Pillsbury is staging a trial run for an idea of Saul Alinsky's, the radical organizer. Alinsky says that he is trying to induce "some leading left-wing economists and emancipated corporation executives" to help him form an organization called Proxies for People. It would solicit proxies from foundations, mutual funds, union welfare funds, churches and universities, and vote them to compel corporations to pursue such social goals as ending pollution. Alinsky says that he is getting voluntary proxies every day from individual sympathizers-and telephone calls from worried and presumably unemancipated corporation executives sounding...