Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more fitted for it. The larger part of your quotation brings to mind his extemporaneous Faneuil Hall mass meeting speech in Boston, following the sinking of the Lusitania, when, though a feeble old man always a hater of war, he held an audience of thousands spellbound by his militant appeal for loyalty in the common cause of mankind against the common enemy, the autocracy of the imperial German Government, even though that loyalty should involve war. . . . Do you ask our loyalty to what you promised in 1932; to what you have since done; to what you say you have done...
...upon favorably." In other words, the 128 miles of over-water railroad will probably be abandoned. Only hope is the Flagler will. The receivers have won the first round of a legal battle to compel the Flagler trustees to come to the aid of the Flagler System, but an appeal is expected, since the trustees apparently believe that further investment in the road would be folly.* Meantime Florida East Coast's Havana freight traffic is being handled economically through Miami and Port Everglades. Key West's 12,000 inhabitants are virtually stranded. Cessation of railroad service wrecked...
...certain conditions, it permits a Federal judge to club a stubborn majority if the plan seems to him fair & equitable. This might be the statute, said Judge Gore, but it was not law, for it was plainly contrary to the Fifth Amendment. And he declared 77-B unconstitutional. On appeal the Circuit Court last week sustained Judge Gore's opinion on the point in question but not on 77-B as a whole. Said the Court: "The rights [threatened] are substantive property rights, and any invasion of them under ... the present statute is as clearly violative...
...that it is now so important to work for 'peace' and the preservation of civil liberties that greater effectiveness in the pursuit of these objectives is to be achieved by one organization, because of (1) its unity of direction, (2) its ending of inter-group strife, and (3) its appeal to a broader membership. All three arguments are fallacious. External strife by being made internal will paralyze the organization. In any undergraduate political organization, except one devoted exclusively to parliamentary discussion, an active part is taken by only a small minority centering around the officers. Since their aims...
This project should carry a great appeal, not merely to the sense of economy in the upperclassman who occasionally plays the host to his younger friends, but to the freshman who spends the year wondering what this new fangled House plan is all about. In the House dining hall the newcomer may discover where the lost generation of friends he knew at school have been hiding...