Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Church, Dollfuss apparently feels that his domestic position has become so unstable that if he is to maintain his government against the ever increasing violence of Nazi propaganda, he must have more than the moral backing of the other powers. According to dispatches from Vienna he has decided to appeal to the League tomorrow and ask that Article XI, paragraph 2, be invoked against Germany. That the League itself would have much effect in halting the Nazis even Dollfuss does not believe; but by appealing to the League he hopes to use it as a means of rallying France, England...
This seems a small thing, definitely out of step with the Administration's clever and liberal handling of public relations. Mr. Roosevelt's appeal is to the heart as well as the mind. The success of the New Deal depends entirely upon public support. When Mr. Roosevelt becomes "just another President" the fires of patriotism and sacrifice will die, and expediency and self-interest gain the upper hand...
...another press notice about Steve. It reported that the local Chamber of Commerce's transportation committee had recommended to the District Commissioners that Steve's stand be removed as an obstruction to traffic, that Steve, who has certain ancient and vague connections with California, was about to appeal to his Senator William Gibbs McAdoo to save his business. The First Lady took shears, neatly clipped the paragraph, pinned it to a sheet of paper, scrawled on the paper: ''Must this man go? E. R." A servant carried the paper to Presidential Secretary Stephen T. Early...
Dismissing the prisoner, Mr. Justice Charles said almost shyly: "May I, dropping the judge for a minute and as one man to another, appeal to you to put this maggot out of your brain and try to be a happy fellow? You are man enough to do it. Unless you wish to end in a madhouse, the sooner you depart from the belief you have been nurturing in your brain the belter...
...great book? If greatness is measured by universality of appeal, Ulysses cannot be called great. It will never be a bestseller. Old-line critics have mostly found it too hot to handle. But a growing body of modern critical opinion on both sides of the Atlantic has already acclaimed Ulysses as a work of genius and a modern classic. For readers to whom books are an important means of learning about life, it stands preeminent above modern rivals as one of the most monumental works of the human intelligence...