Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Before opera is to be resumed in Chicago the present corporation must be liquidated, a new one formed. More complicated is the future of the Opera building at No. 20 Wacker Drive, a separate corporation. Chicago Opera contracts have been on a yearly basis. An appeal for $500,000 failing last January, no new ones were made. Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera took its pick of the available artists, signed up for next year Soprano Frida Leider, Tenor Tito 'Schipa, Baritone Richard Bonelli (TIME, May 30). Lately the Metropolitan engaged also German Soprano Lotte Lehmann and stately Contralto Maria...
...booming John McNab of California, who reminded the audience that he had placed the name of Hoover before the 1928 convention (voice from gallery: "That's no credit to you!"). Ending the fight, he put the matter bluntly: "Do you want to support the President in this crisis? I appeal to you to vote for this majority report...
After Governor Roosevelt made his rabble-rousing "forgotten man" speech, Mr. Smith at a Jefferson Day dinner in Washington answered it: "I will take off my coat and vest and fight to the end against any candidate who persists in any demagogic appeal to the masses." Mr. Smith also supplied the country with a full-length platform on debt revision, pub lic works, taxation, economy, Prohibition. He was vividly acclaimed for straight thinking, plain speaking. As his popularity rose, he heard on all sides that he and he alone could win the election. The demand for his nomination reached...
...Pending appeal the Court denied the defendant $50,000 bail, suspecting that Rascal Means still had a sizeable portion of Mrs. McLean's money hid away...
Fortunately, there are signs that they cannot. "Of Thee I Sing" has effectively satirized, in Wintergreen's plank of Love, the attempt to convince by appeal to the emotions with neglect of the discriminating intelligence. The Consumer's Research Bulletin is finding wide approval. Mr. Batten has done a service by describing the plight of the advertising man of principle, who must compete with his less ethical collegue, and by placing the responsibility for our charlatan industrial life where it belongs, on the public. When, and only when individual consumers resolve not to buy any article whose advertisers insult...