Word: appealable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inspired by the success of President Eisenhower's recent television appeal for a strong law to fight labor racketeering, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson last week marched into Gettysburg, returned with a promise that Ike would plow into the multi-billion-dollar farm-subsidy scandal. Before Congress reconvenes next January, Benson said, the President will go on television with a direct appeal for public support of Benson's proposals to end the wheat surplus for which taxpayers pay dearly...
...greeted, talked more about civil defense, but neither expected nor got any presidential endorsement. Later in the week, he flew off to his son's wedding in Norway (see FOREIGN NEWS), where there are no New Hampshire primary votes, but where the citizens responded enthusiastically to the personal appeal that makes Nelson Rockefeller such a formidable presidential hopeful...
...desperation, Halleck persuaded the President to go on television with an eloquent and perfectly timed appeal for strong labor reform. That reversed the trend: last week, on the eve of the great debate, the House got its biggest pile of mail since Harry Truman sacked General MacArthur...
Frank story, he is also bidding to take over its emotional appeal. The difference: The Diary is an authentic human document; Eva, although powerful and credible, is a product of the present day and already a historical fiction...
Metal Badge. Amazed by the tunic's power to draw pilgrims, Pope Leo X and the Archbishop of Trier agreed to display it every seven years. Although wars, revolutions and the Reformation stopped its regular appearance, Tunica Domini never lost its appeal. In 1810 about 250,000 pilgrims went to see it, and at the last showing, in 1933, the tally was 2,000,000. Since Cologne's Joseph Cardinal Frings unveiled the tunic for the 1959 pilgrimage last month, almost a million Roman Catholics have visited the cathedral...