Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate and its time-wasting rules completely stole the inaugural show from Calvin Coolidge. Last week Mr. Dawes, now president of Reconstruction Finance Corp., was back before a Congressional Committee making lively front page news with his desk-pounding, his belligerent gestures, his oaths-and his homely appeal to common sense. Mr. Dawes had been summoned before the House Ways & Means Committee to give his opinion on the Patman bill to pay off the Soldier Bonus by an inflationary issue of $2.400,000,000 in new currency. He gave the proposition short shrift. Said he: "This issue of fiat money...
...three-fourths of the States. Two days later Bishop James Cannon Jr. approved the Byrd plan before a meeting of the Anti-Saloon League at Richmond. Day after that Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde returned from the Missouri State Republican convention and endorsed that body's appeal that Congress call a national Constitutional convention on Prohibition...
...This is no time for demagogs. There is always the temptation to some men to stir up class prejudice. Against that effort I set myself uncompromisingly. . . . 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 of the working people of this country to destroy themselves by setting class against class and rich against poor...
...Metropolitan has also cut down on the length of the coming season-from 24 weeks to 16 weeks. A 25%, decrease in salaries is expected to result from Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza's appeal to the company. With these changes the Metropolitan hopes to go on for a time giving opera in the old house. But last week Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath strongly indicated that the company would eventually move to Rockefeller Center...
...brought him to fame. With a handful of sawdust as his only clew he trapped the Brothers McNamara, later convicted for dynamiting the Los Angeles Times' Building. Convicted of complicity in contempt of court for jury-shadowing in the Sinclair-Fall trial in 1927 he was acquitted on appeal. He once said: "Private detectives as a class are the biggest lot of blackmailing thieves that ever went unwhipped of justice...