Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentiment. The most powerful men in the U. S. today are not the great bankers, financiers or real estate racketeers, but the obscure and unknown persons who pass upon letters to the editor and decide what shall and what shall not be printed. From their decision there is no appeal. They can, as many of them do, suppress all letters attacking the grievous wrongs and social injustices of our present economic system. Once in a while, to make a pretense of fairness, a letter criticizing the existing social order may be printed. The rest is silence...
...massive desk of old President Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hinden burg last week lay a letter heavy with Dutch seals. It contained a dignified appeal from Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Queen of The Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau and Duchess of Mecklenburg. Her Majesty asked only what seemed simple Anglo-Saxon Justice. The death penalty, she urged, should not be inflicted retroactively on her famed subject, the dim-witted Dutch brick mason Marinus van der Lubbe. At the time he set fire to the German Reichstag there was no death penalty for such an act. It was hastily decreed...
...Government has just established a minimum day wage effective throughout Mexico! I appeal for universal support of this minimum wage to restore Prosperity. . . . The theory of starvation wages and of overworked labor has now been scrapped in Mexico! The workman must be able to supply himself and his family not only with material necessities but also with honest pleasures and spiritual necessities." The new minimum wage, scheduled to provide Mexico's working class with such boons: 1½ pesos...
...assets. To a circular the receivers had distributed to bondholders, he countered with a $2,000,000 libel suit. He hired press-agents and mailed to bondholders his own pamphlet with a full text of his suits. a quotation on corporate reorganization from The New Republic and another personal appeal. Excerpt: "I understand that Eastern Bankers and the Receivers . . . are evolving a scheme to seize the properties of our company for a mere fraction of their value. . . . Heartless Financial Giants ... and their allied Newsprint competitive company have marked us for their prey. . . ." Edward Wellington Backus was taken to the Minnesota...
...will see that recognition is extended to the conservative government without any delay: for even with powerful American support it is evident that the conservatives are going to have a stiff battle overcoming the Revolutionary party because of its military power and even more because of the wide popular appeal which it has gained for itself. NEMO