Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HERBERT B. FREDERICK County Solicitor, Criminal Court of Record Daytona Beach, Fla. Upon Captain George Washington Courson, prison guard found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Prisoner Maillefert, Florida Justice (Judge George Cooper Gibbs) imposed a sentence of 20 years in prison (the maximum).-ED. Appeal to a Husband (Making exception for an extraordinary case. TIME prints the subjoined letters without names, address or obligation. If enough readers desire such service, TIME will establish a special lineage rate for "personal"' advertisements, to be printed in a fixed position in the magazine each week.-ED.) Sirs...
...been a subscriber of your magazine for several years and never failed to read it from cover to cover and I feel that if he is anywhere where your magazine can be bought, he is still reading it. Therefore I am asking you to either publish my enclosed appeal to him, as I really mean every word of it, or print the equivalent in your own words and to make your charge as nominal as possible as I have very little money to tide me over until I can find some way to support myself...
...want is a man of action. . . ." ¶ Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, famed feminist, declared for Hoover: ''This is no time to make over human society. . . . Nor is it a good time to change horses. . . ." ¶ "Dedicated to Franklin D. Roosevelt after hearing his lofty and noble appeal for the Forgotten Man'' were some verses by 80-year-old Edwin Markham, author of "The Man With the Hoe." Excerpt : Not on our golden fortunes builded high- Not on our boasts that soar into the sky- Not upon these is resting in this hour The fate...
Indiana's James Eli Watson, long-legged, large-stomached, small-eyed leader of the present Republican Senate majority of one, was defeated by Democrat Frederick Van Nuys, Indianapolis attorney. President Hoover, campaigning in the State, had made a warm personal appeal for Senator Watson's reelection. Watson entered the Senate in 1917, succeeded Charles Curtis as G. 0. P. leader in 1929. Long a Dry, he ran as a Resubmissionist. Senator-elect Van Nuys, a longtime Democratic worker, favors Repeal and beer. There was a real partisan revenge in the defeat of New Hampshire's Senator since...
...only he would stay. To Macy's he would be worth it. Since he hit upon his vein of bright, saucy, it's-smart-to-be-thrifty advertisements back in 1927, Macy sales have jumped 40% to $100,000,000 annually. He made the notions department appeal to "firemen, housewives, bachelors and babies." Evening wraps were offered under the head: "WRAP HER UP AND TAKE HER HOME." His was the direction, but about-townish writers like Margaret Fishback turned out the copy. A Macy-Collins-Fishback advt. of last week: a naked "brand-new baby...