Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plan and the basis for estimating the probable yield from a universal transactions tax, Dr. Townsend finally turned on his questioners, expressed his opinion of all such petty quibblings in a sharp bleat: "Oh, why all this nonsense?" Townsendgrams & Fraud. Third morning's questioning involved another Townsend appeal for funds. In January 1935 four men went to Washington to lobby the Townsend Plan through Congress. To pay their expenses Townsendites were asked to contribute to a special Congressional Action Fund, supplied $23,400. Four months later the four lobbyists quit their work, left Washington, having spent only...
Asked to explain a recent appeal in the Townsend Weekly for a "defense fund" to be placed at his personal disposal on the "very great possibility" that the House investigating committee would impound OARP's funds, Dr. Townsend admitted after persistent questioning that he knew the committee had no power to impound his organization's funds...
With the academic year drawing to a close, the annual appeal of the Association of Harvard Chemists for graduating seniors to become-members, draws attention to this unique organization...
...Singing Kid" Al Jolson gives another singularly uninteresting performance. Jolson's line is extremely limited and for this reviewer, at least, his appeal has utterly worn out. He is a past master at the art of letting his supporting cast take the picture out from under his nose, as Edward Everett Horton, the Yacht Club Boys, and most of all, Cab Calloway and his band, do in this picture. If the Cab and his band had had more of a part the whole thing might have been worth seeing. As it is he appears only a few short times...
...course, other elements which may bulk larger than economic gain alone. Personal abilities and social-utility considerations--as is usually true of medical, and divinity students--may count for a great deal more, but however much a man may be compounded of ideals, the practical aspects have some appeal, particularly when account is taken of the sacrifices often involved. It is knowledge, or rather a larger, even if not conclusive, consideration of this topic that most embryo graduate students are especially anxious to discover...