Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accuse") with a membership estimated between 10,000 and 200,000 on the main island of Luzon. Four years ago Benigno Ramos began organizing the Sak-dalistas after Manuel Quezon fired him from the job of clerk of the Philippine Senate. Ramos' platform was calculated to appeal to poor malcontents: abolition of poll and land taxes, better roads, more schools, shared wealth. Significance of the Sakdal party name was its bitter opposition to the "favoritism and corruption" of Boss Quezon's dominant Nationalist party. Evidently last week's uprising was chiefly calculated as a demonstration against...
...interest whatever was manifested by the London public last week when 81-year-old Sir John Eldon Bankes, Lord Justice of Appeal (retired), opened with no popping of flashlights or pushing crowds the proceedings of the Royal Commission on the Private Manufacture and Trade in Arms (TIME, March...
...smoke wafted from the Berkshires, the evervigilant Boston American and Record flew to the resume of that Americanism in such appalling danger of being snuffed out forever on the lawns of Williamstown. The ludicrous antics of these self-appointed missionaries, who ran the gamut of fanaticism from an appeal to the local American Legion Post to whispered impeachments of President Tyler Dennett, brought an inevitable clash with a usually unconcerned student body...
...wholly incomplete list of papers which approved the Supreme Court's action would include the Birmingham -Herald, published in the State where the crime occurred: the Raleigh News and Observer, the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The Memphis Commercial Appeal urged the authorities of Alabama not to try the defendants again, saying that there is too much doubt concerning their guilt...
...They wot of every gallon and rush to law for their rights. Last week the Miller of Denan near Lille, all witting M. Doisy, won his 25-year-old suit against the French State for water which has not flowed over his mill since 1908. Though the State will appeal, it was ordered last week to pay costs, plus 50,000 francs for experts' fees, 500,000 for damages and 700,000 francs interest on these damages since 1911 to Miller Doisy who based his claim on a water grant more than 1,000 years...