Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unquestionably the recent ruling will go a long way to combat the traditional amaze in which the first year man finds himself when faced with the problem of choosing a House. Leverett, Lowell, Kirkland, Winthrop, Dunster, Adams, Eliot--each has an appeal of its own and it is fit that each should have a chance to put its best foot forward while entertaining Freshmen guests. The move means an even greater complication in the labyrinthine account-system of Lehman Hall and the University has shown highly commendable goodwill in making the sacrifice for the benefit of Man and House...
Scripps-Howard's parent company entered Memphis 30 years ago with the Press. In 1926, the Press swallowed the News-Scimitar. Same year the powerful old morning Commercial Appeal aimed an Evening Appeal at the Press-Scimitar. Just before the Evening Appeal appeared, Editor & Publisher Charles Patrick Joseph Mooney suddenly died. Because Mr. Mooney had been a great & able editor, the Appeal papers languished without him. Promoters Luke Lea and Rogers ("We Bank on the South") Caldwell acquired the papers in 1927, milked them of cash, lost them to receivers when the Lea-Caldwell empire collapsed...
...James Thomas Hammond Jr. appeared to buy the Appeals with money loaned by "friends in the Scripps-Howard organization." His first official act was to liquidate Scripps-Howard's afternoon competition. Last week Scripps-Howard completed the capture of Memphis by coming out in the open, handing Mr. Hammond his walking papers, admitting that any literate citizen among Memphis's 156,528 whites, 96,550 Negroes who wants to read a home-town paper must henceforth do so under the Scripps-Howard flag. Claiming "the largest circulation in the South," the Commercial Appeal brings Scripps-Howard...
Into town to take charge of the Commercial Appeal went dapper, able little John Harvey Sorrells. Scripps-Howard executive editor and troubleshooter, whose first newspaper job was as a Commercial Appeal carrier...
...markets to many of our vital crops like cotton, and at the same time opened the gates wide for the importation from abroad of products much better produced at home. Clearly a policy which calls for slaughtering cattle in the north-west and then importing more from Canada cannot appeal to the vote of any pocket-wise consumer...