Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when President Hoover made Everett Sanders, a representative of the grain trade, chairman of the Republican National Committee. The Commission hedged by offering to rescind its penalty if the Board of Trade "receded from its position'' within 15 days. President Peter B. Carey said the Board would appeal, if necessary "all the way to the Supreme Court...
Previously President de Valera, by no means spoiling for a fight, had exclaimed, "I appeal once more to the British, asking them to state unequivocally that the people of Ireland would not be interfered with by hostile British action should they declare their independence...
Pointing out that Great Britain expects to be paid in "land annuities" nearly one-quarter of the tax revenue of the Free State, Mr. de Valera exclaimed: "Britain finds the ?37.000,000 due the United States [yearly] almost unbearable. What appeal would she not make to the world if she had to transmit abroad a fourth of her tax revenue as we have had to do! ... If she paid the United States proportionately as much as she expects us to pay, she would pay the United States...
About the time the U. S. entered the War, Publisher Julius A. Wayland of the Appeal committed suicide. Emanuel Julius succeeded him, changed the name of the paper to The National Appeal, endorsed the War, lost most of his remaining Socialist following. The Appeal, appealing to no group, faded out. But Publisher Julius remained in Girard, married Marcet Haldeman, daughter of a local bank president, changed his name to Emanuel Haldeman-Julius. To keep his presses turning he issued twelve little 5? books, classics of Socialist literature. Those were to be the nucleus of his famed...
Little Blue Books which have made E. Haldeman-Julius rich & famed. In 1923 the Appeal became Haldeman-Julius Weekly; in 1928, The American Freeman. Few knew it existed. Even last autumn when it began flaying Herbert Hoover, it attracted less attention than in McKinley's day. What it needed was publicity. Last week an obliging Post Office Department presented it with nationwide notice by confiscating the July 15 issue as "treasonous matter." Announced reason: an article headlined, WHY DON'T THE WORKERS RAISE HELL? Flaying the Unemployed for cowardice the article demanded: "Can any one . . . visualize a Texan...