Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coughlin-Lemke-O'Brien platform was a marvel of inclusive appeal to every crackpot and malcontent in the land. Briefly, it proposed to create a common-man's Utopia by legislative fiat. For Lemke-Coughlin inflationists there was to be a government central bank, with complete control of money and credit, which would issue new currency to retire all Government bonds, refinance all farm and home mortgages. For Townsendites, there was "assurance of reasonable and decent security for the aged." For Share-the-Wealthers, there was limitation of individual incomes and inheritances. For the benefit of anyone...
...Government planned to appeal the Supreme Court decisions to the court of last resort, the Judicial Committee of His Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council in London; for Canada's Supreme Court is not supreme...
Highlight of the exhibition was Artist Salvador Dali's living design, Phantom of Sex Appeal, for which Artist Sheila Legge solemnly glided through the crowded, stuffy gallery in a tight white satin gown, her head in a wire cage covered with pink paper rosebuds, a facsimile female leg in her hand. She had substituted the leg for a pork chop prescribed by Artist Dali...
...impossible. Last week, however, they found Neville Chamberlain willing to confirm the Irishman's tale in all details. Jubilant were the Chancellor's friends, now busy grooming him to succeed Stanley Baldwin before long as Prime Minister, but fearful that frosty Mr. Chamberlain lacks the human appeal necessary to hold the highest office in Great Britain with success. After his spontaneous duck-pond heroism they all felt immensely more hopeful, and London newspapers blazed out with the first human interest story of all time about Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Privy Councilor to His Majesty...
...Pennsylvania, which elsewhere is asking 2? a mile. The injunction thus permitted the Long Island to charge the old rates along most of its suburban mileage, but only the new rates after it entered city limits. The L. I. R. R. then avoided obeying the injunction by planning an appeal. This time the passenger outburst was stupendous. Sullenly standing pat, the railroad refused to accept any fares below its standard 3? rate. If a passenger refused to pay that, the agent took his name and address, let him ride for nothing, declared: "Our legal department will get in touch with...