Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might interest you to know that insofar as this particular appeal to decency is concerned you are not dealing merely with an insignificant little colored man and his colored followers or "blackamoors" as you choose to refer to them, and as Father Divine and His followers might appear to you, but rather this is addressed to you from and on behalf of those of your fellowmen who are considered as "white," and who believe incidentally that no man is a credit to any so-called race or color until he is first a gentleman...
Despite the rising tide of course work and the increased demands of athletic coaches on the undergraduate's time and energy, outside activities maintain their particular appeal to the student who looks for something more than 16 C's and a pass in Freshman physical education out of his four years in college...
...removed only by Congress. Politically independent of the Government. Comptroller McCarl is the supreme keeper of its checkbook and therefore the best-hated man in public service. He interprets the literal law of Congress as to how money should be spent and from his decisions there is no appeal. The legal authority for spending 5? is as important to him as a $1,000,000,000 appropriation. A short, florid man, he is personally affable, officially inexorable...
...system in Canada, the Scots Lord dropped his tactful manner, declared it "a monstrous suggestion." (The Commission gets no pay, only expenses.) Chief problem before the Commission is whether to recommend establishment of a central bank in Canada. "Nationalization of credit" and other radical experiments are not likely to appeal to its economically cautious members...
...status as a thief. But in Minnesota and many another State, the fence can plead ignorance. Thus for years Fence Connolly did a land-office business. He was finally nabbed by U. S. postal authorities in 1931, given a 15-year sentence, but while awaiting the outcome of an appeal died in jail...