Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allowed. Defendant Belcher readily admitted the facts but argued that the Recovery Act as applied to him was unconstitutional for 61 different reasons. Judge Grubb upheld him (TIME, Nov. 12). Government attorneys were delighted; here was a magnificent test case-no argument about facts, simply a question of constitutionality. Appeal was speeded to the Supreme Court. The reason for the Government's haste was explained by Assistant Attorney General Harold M. Stephens...
...that destruction and ruin would be sown from the skies, on land and at sea. ... If anybody should commit this nefarious crime-and may the Almighty put far from us this sad forecast which we on our part believe will not come to pass-then we cannot help but appeal again to Almighty God with this prayer from saddened souls...
Aroused & United. With the French Senate at white heat Premier Flandin, recognizing that historic French individualism is menaced as never before by historic German capacity to goosestep behind a leader, launched a paradoxical appeal to Frenchmen to do as the Germans...
...Russian, a German or an Italian the Premier's moving appeal to Parliament sounded like a swan song of democracy, an indirect confession that Liberty, Equality and Fraternity can no longer stand up and take it. Paris last week was .repeating the bitter jibe "It seems that Briand was a poet and Poincare was right." Senator Henry de Jouvenel, onetime French Ambassador to Rome and a close student of II Duce, told his august colleagues amid a storm of applause: "I don't know where we stand with Great Britain, but I have confidence in Premier Mussolini...
...TIME, July 23), last week reached with smiling expectation for her second. Like her first, The Barbarians is a light-hearted farce compounded of verbal high jinks, a glass house epigrammed in chromium, furnished (in spots) with topical puns. An unserious book if there ever was one, it should appeal to those who like their chatter in book form; might even do a little missionary work among the followers of the late Thorne Smith...