Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better his chances to wrest the Governorship from the Leche-Maestri-Weiss organization next year. If he runs Senator Noe will have to beat Earl Long, who will have to rumple up both his hair and his personality before he can hope to equal his late brother in vote appeal and administrative aptitude...
...maiden dinner of Manhattan's Association of Customers' Brokers, at which bigwig brokers like Carle Conway and Paul Shields were much more in evidence than customers' men. Chairman Frank seized the occasion to issue, not an SEC blast against Wall Street, but a solemn warning and appeal for cooperation...
...cost of defenses to NLRB complaints. Ruling out the automobile company cases because the amounts expended were so large that they would unbalance his study, he last week published his finding (based upon 76 company defenses in 28 States): The average cost of meeting an NLRB complaint (not including appeal to the courts) was $20,572. Since 54% of U. S. corporations have assets of less than $50,000 a year, most of them cannot afford the luxury of a defense...
...Thomas Edmund Dewey, 90%; voice quality very good, delivery & mannerisms good, poise very good. "Resonant, effective, his short staccato sentences ending with a punch you know is in the man himself . . . his appeal is not the appeal of persuasion, but of hard, purposeful drive...
...Cordell Hull, 84%; voice quality very good, delivery good, mannerisms fair, poise very good. Chief appeal: "A quiet gentlemanliness and an ability to address a radio audience in conversational tones which are at once pleasant and compelling...