Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the honors of war, called on Legionaries for similar demonstrations. Telegrams at the rate of 250 an hour flooded Washington, 15,000 were delivered at the White House one day. And Father Coughlin who takes credit for having defeated the World Court, tried his influence again, broadcast an appeal to the President to sign the Patman Bill "in the name of the greatest lobby the people ever established. . . . You were called a demagog for uttering the same philosophy which I utter today, for reminding the people of the forgotten...
Husband Gaddess had little trouble proving enough for divorce, but his demand for custody of their two children was sternly denied by the referee, who blamed the husband for having introduced his "heretofore blameless and refined wife" to Jack, "an unprepossessing fellow of low morals." Husband Gaddess filed appeal. Jack Kriendler nonchalantly went about his business of making his guests comfortable at 21. In the telephone booths appeared signs reading: "These wires aren't tapped." At the bar, wags loudly ordered Mooey cocktails...
...result, Father Time has not had the opportunity to show his long-suspected preference for democratic rule. Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, are all young men and very much in the saddle. Not only has their power just started, but they own their very positions in large measure to their magnetic appeal to the youth of their countries...
...Boston Symphony wound up its season with a Bach-Handel Festival, and a $100,000 deficit, slightly bigger than last year's. Unless Massachusetts' State Board of Tax Appeals grants Trustee President Bentley W. Warren's petition to exempt Symphony Hall and its site from 1935 city taxation, President Warren will have to make an appeal for $130,000 to the guarantors of the annual subsidy...
...Department of Justice's petition for a permanent injunction, he declared: "[The Government failed] to prove sufficiently substantial lessening of competition to warrant a finding of probable injury to the public. . . ." Before proceeding with the biggest merger since the Depression, Steelman Girdler will await a possible, but improbable, appeal. Said he: "We are deeply gratified...