Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wages" (i. e. in most cases union wages) rather than a relief wage of around $50 a month as planned by the Administration. This was something on which they could make trouble for the Administration, for the President had only just got it eliminated in committee by a special appeal to Senator Glass...
...Carolina. Governor Ehringhaus had recommended that that University be held to a budget some 40% below that of 1928. Last fortnight the University's small, able President Frank Porter Graham, who calls more North Carolinians by their first names than anyone else in the State, made a personal appeal for a 25% increase, told legislators that his University was "reaching the breaking point." Last week the appropriations committee voted to give him what he asked...
...times downright noble, Playwright Obey's Noah should tickle sophisticates with its whimsicality, should bring temporary comfort to those involved in life's complexities, should cause sheer delight to the pure in heart. First produced in French in Paris, Noah has the same sort of appeal as The Green Pastures. But it is clearly a product from the banks of the Seine, not the Mississippi, could not possibly be taken as an imitation...
...were sure that the speculator who, once a $7-a-week stockboy in Chicago's Marshall Field's, had made $1,500,000 in corn in a single month and ten years ago cornered more wheat than any man in history (about 20,000,000 bu.), would appeal his case or transfer his trading activities to Canada where he was born. But later that day Speculator Cutten declared laconically: "What's the use of trading? The market doesn't move...
...time to realize that the insidious delusions in the mind of the unthinking average voter can be combatted only by instilling in his mind counter-delusions. Explain the situation to him in words of one syllable and in a light favorable to his economic aspirations. In short, appeal to his natural prejudices; by demagogic illogic crush the demogogues...