Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preparing to lead Ally France into another Munich settlement. From Foreign Office spokesmen in London, however, came the assurance that Sir Nevile took back to Berlin a message from the Chamberlain Government which: 1) advised Führer Hitler not to reject flatly President Roosevelt's appeal, 2) warned that Britain might answer further German aggression with peacetime conscription...
Such was perhaps the most successful bit of peace propaganda* attempted as an estimated 1,000,000 U. S. undergraduates observed annual "Peace Day" on Adolf Hitler's birthday. While most cheered collective security and President's Roosevelt's peace appeal to the dictators, on many a campus isolationists held rival meetings...
...Small local stations have greater appeal to low-income groups than to higher earning brackets. Likely reasons: the poor listener likes to hear of advertisers with whom he is familiar; foreign born like local programs in their own language; farmers like to hear folksy shows, Bible-hours that never get on the chains...
Stuffier Minneapolitans were always a little embarrassed by Mitropoulos' lack of dignity. But last week, as their symphony rounded out its season with an appeal for funds to balance the $250,000 annual budget, they thanked their stars for it. "Never mind my dignity," said Conductor Mitropoulos. "If necessary to continue the orchestra, I'll take the men to Seventh and Nicollet [heart of downtown Minneapolis] and play there and then pass...
Loft stock, which had been selling at 75? in March 1938, zoomed to $9 on the court decision, has since been one of the market's liveliest issues. Last week the Delaware Supreme Court turned down Mr. Guth's appeal. That day Loft was the most active issue on the New York Stock Exchange, with sales of 87,600 shares, closed...