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Have you been asked, or have you volunteered to solicit funds for a cause in which you are interested? Do you feel reluctant to do such soliciting...
President Niedringhaus failed to answer the letter or promise reforms of alleged abuses. The committee then resolved to circularize the stockholders and solicit their proxies, with the purpose of voting a new board of directors into power at the company's annual meeting on Mar. 10. Whereupon President Niedringhaus, himself, sent a letter stockholders. In it he declared that the six men forming the committee, despite their assertion that they held 30,000 shares of stock among them, were none of them stockholders of record as of Jan. 30, 1925; that, if they hold stock, it has been acquired...
Prof. Takayanagi of Tokyo University,* in the U. S. to solicit funds for his alma mater, knocked not in vain at the door of John D. Rockefeller Jr. He had asked for financial aid on behalf of his university library, which was partially destroyed by the great Earthquake of 1923 (TIME, Sept. 10, 1923, et seq.), and in which 800,000 books were destroyed...
...election has therefore been called to end a delicate situation. Ziwar Pasha will attempt under an old electoral law to solicit support for his Cabinet from the electorate. The chances are that he will be successful; the chances are that the result of the election will not mirror the true expression of the people's will. The new election will be held on the electoral college plan and that will give the Government, through its officials, the unrivaled opportunity of influencing the voters in its favor...
...annual Red Cross roll call is now in full swing and will continue to solicit subscriptions until Thanksgiving. The Student Council announced last night that although no canvassing in college dormitories will be done that the drive has its hearty endorsement and that I hoped there would be a creditable number of voluntary contributions...