Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banking reforms" also appeal to the common-room liberals of New Haven, who, if they would make only the most casual investigation, would realize that government bonds weigh so heavily on the banks of the United States that only the hypodermic needle of the government-supported F. D. I. C. prevents a recurrence of financial panic. Equally attractive is the "experiment with government ownership of utilities," which may appear as justice to all sorts of political malcontents, but which promises to ruin one of America's most highly capitalized industries, the vast majority of whose securities is held...
...branch of the government and at the same time secure the confidence of the general public. In a successful president both of these arts are essential. Of course if, by virtue of them, a president succeeds in having his measures passed by Congress, and in making an effective popular appeal, his detractors call him a dictator and a demagogue; but as a matter of fact he is simply a successful political executive and leader of the type which our system of party responsibility and democratic control requires...
...cars in every garage the major theme of his campaign in 1928. Last week it became apparent that Franklin Roosevelt was waging a campaign for re-election which at bottom was exactly the same as the Hoover campaign of 1928. In the White House, President Roosevelt might appeal to citizens' minds and hearts with lofty ideals and daring plans, but on the stump Nominee Roosevelt devoted himself exclusively to voters' stomachs...
...that, though she also read Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and the Atlantic Monthly, and could identify such widely assorted characters as Vincent van Gogh, Beatrice Lillie and Princes Natalie Paley, she still stood in need of advice on "how to do my hair, powder my nose, cultivate sex appeal and walk a straight line...
...former, the obvious conclusion is that the most important explanation of the varying fortunes of the two groups of countries must be in varying currency conditions. It is the task of those who deny this to explain the economic developments and contrasts of the years 1931-36 without an appeal to these conditions, l. e., currency depreciation...