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...teach the public to have the disease treated at an early stage of development. . . . If every case could be recognized in two weeks after cancer has set in, and then treated by surgery, there would be no more death rate from cancer." For such publicity the society is soliciting $1,000,000 to assure an annual income of $50,000. John D. Rockefeller Jr. has already given $125,000, Edward S. Harkness $100,000, and other rich men enough money to make up $536,000. Of this $100,000 had to be spent last year to pay the expenses...
...raising their Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Gifts to the University. Under the present plan, the only appeal to the Graduate School alumni is made through the general literature sent out by the Council and through notices and articles in the Bulletin. This far there has been no attempt to solicit funds from those men through agents appointed for the purpose...
...itself a status toward civic affairs in Washington and New York for which its qualifications are of questionable origin and its performance inadequate. If it proposes to make its powers felt by means of cathedrals it should supply the money to build them from its own members and not solicit gifts from other denominations." Jerusalem Kirk. In the Holy City the president of the court of appeal looked about him, noted Scotsmen passing the Christian Sabbath desolate. They had no church. So he appealed to the Established and United Free Churches of Scotland, for a memorial church...
Miners' Federation President Smith received this letter at Brussels, Belgium, whither he had gone to solicit the fighting aid of the International Miners' Federation. He manifested no haste to return to London...
...living room, kitchen, larder and coal room on the first floor, and three bedrooms and a bath on the second. Fireplaces and a hot-water heating system are provided. Many of our cast-iron tanks are still in use, unpainted, after 100 years in the open. May we solicit your order? During a single afternoon over 800 persons visited the pair of houses which we have recently completed near Sheffield. Already orders have been placed with us for additional houses to a value exceeding...