Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later Freethinker Lewis was again in court, this time to file a brief in an appeal from dismissal of a suit his organization had brought against Manhattan's rich old Trinity Church. Mr. Lewis charged that St. Paul's Chapel, a satellite of Trinity was selling 10? postcards bearing what purported to be a prayer written by George Washington. The prayer, declared the Enemy of God, is "phony." It is a revision of a letter Washington wrote to the Governors of all the States upon disbanding the Army in 1783. Freethinkers' Trinity Church according...
Said the Freethinkers' appeal brief last week: "Of course, not one buyer in thousands would or could have a suspicion that his card was not 'kosher.' . . . Trinity knows that Washington was rather notoriously not a Christian, was not a member of its chapel which he attended officially while President in New York, never knelt in prayer, and always walked out on its holy communion service...
...time have opponents of Roosevelt been weaker than when they have attempted to arouse popular emotions by an appeal to the sanctity of the Constitution. Throughout the past four years blatant cartoonists have shown Roosevelt, Frankfurter, and the little hot dogs tearing the venerable document into shreds with fiendish delight. Leading editorials have stigmatized Roosevelt as trying to undermine the entire American structure of society by his measures which, they claim, reduce the constitution to a mere shred of out-worn parchment...
...economic life. Thus, intelligent opposition to the current administration should be based on a critical examination of specific issues in the light of relative constitutional principles. Attempts to dramatize the Constitution merely cloud the fundamental issues at stake and substitute for an intellectual approach to the problem, the impassioned appeal of the demagogue...
...answer is simple; he must appeal to romance. Should he hire two thousand chorus girls headed by Sally Rand, Mae West, and Elaine Barry, a different spirit would pervade the dormitories. While they are leaders in education in a somewhat different sphere, they have played an important part in molding many a respectable Harvard...