Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...close friends. At the altar in cassock & surplice stood his old schoolmaster, Groton's Dr. Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody who had married him to Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. From his heart, from the hearts of his little band of worshippers, from the heart of a stricken nation rose a wordless appeal for divine strength to right great ills. . . . The President-elect stood up in his pew, squared back his shoulders. As he walked out of St. John's, a brief streak of sunlight shot down upon him through grey wintry clouds...
...counsel obtained a stay of sentence by appealing to the State Supreme Court, which will hear the case Oct. 2. Should the appeal fail Mayor Kline will go to the Allegheny County jail, there to join his onetime Director of Supplies Bertram L. Succop, whom he dismissed when the investigation into municipal buying began...
...true, as several well known, faithfully-recording explorers have recently written, that the primitive jungle is as safe as modern Fifth Avenue, safer, possibly, than Broadway. In common with several of my colleagues, I think that Mr. Duguid overwrites his minor incidents for purposes of lay-appeal...
...charges against Judge Louderback: 1) he dismissed a receiver who refused to appoint as his attorney a lawyer of the judge's choosing; 2) he granted excessive fees to Samuel Shortridge Jr. in a receivership later voided on appeal; 3) he appointed for Fageol Motor Co. a receiver whom he knew to be incompetent and unqualified; 4) he threw Prudential Holding Co. into receivership and appointed the same incompetent receiver "for the sole purpose of benefiting and enriching his personal friends and associates." A subsidiary accusation was that, to dodge a divorce suit in San Francisco, he established...
...Harvard, leave only to be decided which is the Alpha and which the Omega of the theories, Laski, whose radical activities resulted in a hasty Hegira from this vicinity many years ago, sees the ultimate doom of capitalism--unless something unusual should happen, of course. He shows Marx's appeal to the underdog as the reason for this, an appeal outweighing Marx's theoretical inadequacies. He finds Russia to be the only country today in which a feeling of exhilaration can be detected. As a political theorist he places Marx in the top-most ranks...