Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...homes bordering a pretty lake near one of the new cities in Litoria. The whole project is Benito Mussolini's particular pet, enjoys the enviable status of being operated as a "direct dependency" of the Head of the State. Thus a peasant of Litoria with a grievance may appeal straight to IlCapo del Governo, will almost certainly get instant action...
...President Roosevelt or Secretary Hull, grandmotherly Madam Minister Ruth Bryan Owen continues to beat all State Department records for sustained publicity in her minor post in Denmark. Peering inquisitively into Mrs. Roosevelt's shrimp cocktail, Mrs. Owen lately achieved a pose of definite news-picture appeal (see cut). Last week "Big Ruth," as her three grandchildren call her, returned to her post, and a Danish despatch revealed how thoroughly Madam Minister has the local correspondents in hand...
Lady Astor, at a charity appeal in London: "Every one of us has money that we don't want anybody to know anything about. My husband is one of the best in the world, but he won't tell me what his income is. When I ask him he says, 'Well, I don't know. It varies.' Well, his income may vary but his answer never does...
...Court had not undertaken to decide the ownership of the ballad. All it-The Press estimated the royalties as high as $2,000,000. A more likely figure is $375,006.* had done was to pass on a technical kink and deny the legality of Victor's belated appeal from the trial court to the Circuit Court. If lazy newshawks had taken the trouble to read the Supreme Court's decision, they would have seen that David Graves George was right back where he was in 1933 prior to Victor's appeal. Before he gets a cent...
...England's so-called High Court of Justice the Chancery Division is headed by the Lord High Chancellor with a stipend of ?6,000 per year, while the King's Bench Division is headed by the Lord Chief Justice at ?8,000. Appeals from the High Court of Justice may be carried to the House of Lords which, when sitting as a Court of Appeal, has been compared to the U. S. Supreme Court. Ecclesiastical cases, however, and appeals from the highest courts of India, the Dominions and the Colonies go to the Judicial Committee of the Privy...