Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unpaid. In 1936, the bank brought suit against the Benedictines, who countered by claiming that their Archabbot, in conducting the affairs of the university, had acted independently of the Society. A Federal judge in Pittsburgh decided otherwise last fortnight. The Benedictines' attorney announced he would file exceptions, probably appeal...
This final slap was administered by the Chamber of Commerce of the U. S. at its 27th annual meeting. Turning its back on the Appeasement and the Administration (as the Administration has turned its back on the Chamber since 1934), the Chamber made a direct appeal to Congress for things that the New Deal won't give. It got no less than 300 Congressmen to come to its various dinners to hear a verbal barrage against That Man in the White House and all his works...
Seventy-two of the 90 men are now on strike and Dunlevy yesterday made "an appeal to the Harvard faculty who make up most of the telephone patronage of the Yellow Cab Company...
...Harvard has come Brazil's first appeal for intellectual friendship. Through its consul in Boston, it has offered to establish an institute for the study of Brazilian art, literature, music and Portugese. The professors and the library will be supplied from abroad, but the University will have complete control of administration...
...born John La Gatta, 45, a mustachioed believer in the tall brunette and one of the few big-money illustrators who providentially salted his earnings away in real property (on Long Island Sound, with a yacht) before 1929. La Gatta's specialty is swooningly sleek backs. The sex appeal which is La Gatta's stock-in-trade has been parodied by Yaleman Peter Arno in the most devastating battles of black & white in contemporary drawing. Almost all other young illustrators are practiced hands at the slim, distracting figure - a subject which nearly monopolized this year's illustrators...