Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...within the Democratic stronghold, no candidate is more impregnable. Roosevelt will be handicapped neither by the religious or dripping wet sentiments which ruined his predecessor. Owen D. Young is a symbol of that ogre, "Corporation," which is usually delirium tremens to the voter; Ritchie is too wet to appeal to the arid West and South; Baker is disliked in too many quarters; there is no one else...
Labor. Commissioner Mahaffie also knows that many a railroadman hoped that the 15% rate increase would not be granted, but that by public appeal the nation and its legislators would be awakened to the carriers' grievous condition. If it were shown that rates could not be upped, that costs could not be reduced, then the public might realize that only one remedy remained: wage reduction. Ex Parte 103 was to many an official less a plea than a strategem...
...before the bar. Finally he got down his coughdrop, smiled weakly at his attorneys, Michael Ahern & Albert Fink. Up stepped Messrs. Ahern & Fink, pleaded for leniency. Said the judge: "I think I will adhere to my ruling." Then he ordered Capone to jail "forthwith." The lawyers filed notice of appeal...
George was to radio an appeal for British votes the British Broadcasting Corporation cancelled arrangements to broadcast his words through the U. S. Britons heard him say, "There is more actual privation through unemployment in one American city than in the whole of Britain! . . . Spectre of bankruptcy stalking through . . . America. . . . 2,000 banks have crashed!" Most of these U. S. catastrophes Free Trader Lloyd George blamed on the U. S. Republican tariff, exhorted Britons to vote Free Trade (i. e. for the small wing of the Liberal Party still led by Mr. Lloyd George, other Liberals having rallied to support...
...contest from many opposing points of view. An increasing number of Harvard men who in the past may have looked upon the Army meeting as a major event of the football season are beginning to see the fundamental artificiality of the game itself which is so obscured by the appeal of pageantry and precision...