Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhibition should appeal to those interested in the art, the literature and the social customs of the Romantic decades. It shows the period as a whole, so that a new impression is gained of a much misunderstood and neglected movement. The Romantic artists were the first to attempt an adjustment of art to a rapidly mechanizing world: their experiment should not be without interest to us, who are still striving for an adjustment...
Next day Insull got himself a Turkish lawyer to appeal his case, got himself transferred to a better hotel, began to take heart again. As he was sitting in the lounge reading papers after luncheon, five Turkish detectives marched in, surrounded him, lugged him off to the House of Detention near the Mosque of St. Sophia-to lie behind bars until deported. Same day, to make his fate more certain, the Turkish Assembly at Ankara ratified an extradition treaty with the U. S.-a treaty negotiated in 1923, which had lain forgotten for eleven years...
...around New York City, but also of Niagara Hudson Power Corp., which serves nearly one-half the rest of the state. Having personally led the fight in the open committee hearings in Albany, Utilitarian Carlisle last week hopped to a microphone to reply to Governor Lehman's appeal for support. Mr. Carlisle attacked the Constitutionality of the 5% emergency rate bill, defended the holding company and challenged, as all good power men do, the economics of municipal ownership. As an alternative he pleaded for an amendment requiring a municipality to take over existing properties if the citizens insisted...
...Vincent Astor organized a Women's Committee, opened her exclusive home for business meetings, goes each day to check on returns at campaign headquarters. Radio appeals have been made by New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, a longtime Philharmonic subscriber, by Mr. Flagler, Mrs. Astor, Mrs. Christian R. Holmes, Geraldine Farrar, Deems Taylor, Norman H. Davis. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, speaking from the White House five Sundays ago, said: "In helping to preserve the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra you will help preserve a sense of values, a spiritual outlook, a feeling for the good and the beautiful which...
...Henry Ford to supply engines and chassis in bulk. At the Springfield, Mass. plant of Brewster & Co. Inc., onetime famed carriage makers, now wholly owned by Rolls-Royce, the chassis were to be lengthened and partly reshaped to fit Brewster bodies. Solid, expensive-looking, it is cheap enough to appeal to a certain type of Depression pocketbook, modish enough to suit a rich man's tastes. The sponsor of Rolls-Royce's latest innovation was almost the first man Rolls-Royce of America ever hired. John Swanel Inskip began selling Rolls-Royces in 1922. Grey-haired, affable, popular...