Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weathering the depression have been done in the United States, the currency has been put on something like a parity with the currencies of the rest of the world, and a strong and energetic government has been given us. Some of the details of his program do not appeal to me particularly, but there is every reason to think that we are on the road which leads us out of the depression. England, in common with the rest of the world, reached the bottom of the economic cycle in the summer of 1932, but in the United States the break...
...Roosevelt tried gallantly to put a good face on the scuttled League of Nations. He felt himself on surer ground when, praising Wilson's advocacy of peace, he declared: "The imagination of the masses of world population was stirred, as never before, by President Wilson's gallant appeal to them - to those masses - to banish future war. . . . Through all the centuries and down to the world conflict of 1914 to 1918, wars were made by governments. Woodrow Wilson challenged that necessity. That challenge made the people who create and who change governments think...
...young Dr. Hutchins: "We have more in formation, more means of getting more information, and more means of dis tributing information than at any time in history, and yet we are [skeptical of] science, ideas and knowledge. Men have long since cast off God. To what can we now appeal? "The answer comes in the undiluted animalism of the last works of D. H. Lawrence, in the emotionalism of demagogs, in Hitler's scream, 'We think with our blood.' Satisfied that we have, weighed reason and found it wanting, we now turn to passion." Dr. Hutchins...
Most coaches at the convention, however, were inclined to blame "unfair" criticism more than their own shortcomings for the abnormal mortality in jobs. On motion of Brown's Coach D. 0. ("Tuss") McLaughry, it was decided that any coach who feels he is discharged unjustly, may appeal to a committee. The committee will investigate, report to the university president, publicize its findings. The committee will be named by the Association's president-elect, Coach Dana Xenophon Bible of Nebraska...
...muddled and glucy state of the Congressional mind is provided by the debate about the tax to be levied on liquor. Mr. Connelly wants a tax of five dollars a gallon or more in order, he explains, to break up the "Whiskey Trust." Unfortunately, this does not appeal to Mr. Shoemaker of Wisconsin. What we need even more than a five cent cigar, he avers, is whiskey at twenty-five cents a quart. As an after-thought he appended the interesting information that when he was a guest of the government at Leavenworth Prison, there were a hundred and seventy...