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Other Faculty members who have learned of the letter have been calling in their signatures, Martin said, but the emphasized that no effort is being made to solicit signatures. The drafters of the letter intended it to be a private document and sought no publicity...
...entered. The aim was to reduce Robert Kennedy's momentum. Among the gambits used was the quiet funneling of money to McCarthy headquarters via labor unions. Humphrey's organization was so sloppy or overconfident during that period that when Angier Biddle Duke sent a letter volunteering to solicit funds, as he had successfully done for Lyndon Johnson, no one in the Humphrey headquarters even took the trouble to reply...
...foundation could solicit money from alumni,"Calkins said, "and then invest it in areas like Roxbury and Harlem. As the loans were paid back, the money would go to a college of the donor's choice...
Responding to strongly worded advice from President Robert W. Haack of the N.Y.S.E., several brokerage firms have begun taking direct action to cool the speculative fervor. E. F. Hutton & Co. announced that it will forbid its salesmen to solicit orders to buy stocks selling for less than $5 a share and will allow them no commission on such orders. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the nation's largest securities concern, said it plans to increase restrictions on margin accounts...
Seniors will solicit contributions from their classmates door-to-door in the Houses starting Wednesday. Tables may later be set up in the dining halls and a notice posted in the Faculty Club to gather money from the rest of the College...