Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make a major issue out of foreign affairs is merely an effort to find something that will transcend party issues. Roosevelt realizes that he has lost the emergency support that made his first success possible and that if he is to retain control of the party he must appeal on new issues...
...from weakening the Indian independence movement, the resignations were expected to strengthen it. The rank and file of Congress members were already clamoring to oust them. Many of the old Congress high command resigned because they wanted to avoid the ignominy of dismissal. The Mahatma's spiritual appeal has long been powerful with the Hindu masses, but the radical Bose program, based on a frankly anti-British policy, has been strongly supported by Indian workers and peasants. For Britain there were definite signs of storms ahead. British viceroys and governors in India will no longer deal with "reasonable" Saint...
...Roosevelt will participate in the meeting as will Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. He is expected to reiterate the appeal he made a week ago to CIO President John L. Lewis and Federation President William Green--that the warring labor factions sign a peace pact and unify under one banner for the common good of the people and the country...
...dramatizing of democracy that a really new attack on the subject is planned, for by combining the formal symposium and the method of dramatic presentation now used, the committee hopes to evolve a new technique, correlating the appeal of the dramatic presentation with the open discussion of the symposium...
...research division will delve even further into the propaganda field, analyzing propaganda methods employed by the totalitarian stats and by the political parties in America. In addition, the difference between the interpretive and the "factual" news commentator in his appeal and influence, the question of free speech on the radio, and the problem of foreign language broadcasting will be covered...