Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dazzling light of inflation having burst upon him more than two years ago, he was by January 1933 already filibustering in the Senate for "reflation or revolution." In February on the very day that Michigan's banks were collapsing like a house of cards, he wrote letters appealing for inflation to the big bankers of Manhattan-Morgan, Aldrich, Mitchell, Potter, Harrison et al. Said he to them: "After months of effort, here we are forced to appeal from an impotent Congress and a short-sighted administration to you, a higher power, to stop forcing the retreat...
...Thomas, the biggest private man in the fight was Father Charles Edward Coughlin of Detroit. Early in 1932 Father Coughlin (Kawg-lin) having damned Prohibition and likened Andrew Mellon to Judas Iscariot, was getting 80,000 or more letters a week from his listeners. He went to Washington to appeal to the Post Office Department for a special postal substation to handle his mail. While there he too met George LeBlanc and thenceforward his sermons took on a more and more economic tinge until he was in the front of the battle for cheapening the dollar...
Refusing to allow the plea of guilty to be withdrawn, Judge Heinz sentenced Ronald Finney to from 31 to 635 years in jail. Like his father he announced he would appeal...
...spread the mantle of happiness and good health upon all hearthstones. Almighty God, let these days be a prelude of the triumph that is to come. Merciful Father, come with us, and marvels shall come to our Nation reborn. Let self-sacrifice, heroism, and idealism make their irresistible appeal to our Republic until all citizens shall realize their brotherhood in one common Father. . . . O righteous God, frown upon all Mammon worship and hasten the time when the world over shall become just and generous, and by Thy touch man everywhere shall receive the blessing that he needs. In the name...
Such a system should at least be worth trying. It is open to considerable argument whether from a strictly curricular standpoint most undergraduates would gain thereby. On its social aspect, however, the plan has a certain appeal. Each college might act as an antidote for the more unfortunate features of the other. A better balanced product might very possibly result...