Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...character of the present presidential campaign, Alfred E. Smith, speaking before Wednesday's Jefferson Day dinner, voiced an opinion which has recently depressed the silent Democratic leaders. Aroused by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt's radio address of last Thursday, Mr. Smith branded its utterances as a demagogic appeal to the passions of the "little fellow at the bottom of the economic pyramid." Casting aside his role of inactive candidate, he promises irreconcilable opposition to any man who attempts to utilize dangerous class prejudice as a means to nomination...
...instructor in some kind of craft work such as wrought iron making, carpentry, or he may become a basketball coach, librarian, boxing or wrestling instructor, a teacher of English, arithmetic, or a leader of adults who are studying for their naturalization papers. If none of these more specialized fields appeal to him he may organize a group of eight or ten boys into a club and then advise them in what ever activities they choose to busy themselves...
...long as the government sponsors blind complacency with the national attitude in past wars, it can hardly pretend to be a champion of world peace. The overpowering appeal of the sound of trumpets and the march of soldiers cannot help making men readier to fight future wars on small provocation. If "peace-loving" statesmen cannot devise effective means for maintaining permanent peace, the least that can be expected is that they should not make efforts to rekindle the appeal of militarism...
...light sentence. When the prosecutor came to court with this proposal. Judge Wilkerson indignantly quashed it (TIME, Aug. 10). Brought to trial, "Snorkey" Capone received an eleven-year penitentiary term and a $50,000 fine (TIME. Oct. 26). He still languishes in Cook County jail waiting final appeal...
Next day Col. Miller changed his mind, went to the courthouse at Newkirk, posted $16,000 to keep the peace. "He's a sick man," said Prosecutor Bruce Potter. The Colonel's lawyers prepared to appeal to President Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corporation to save...