Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discouraging as TIME'S report would indicate is the response of readers of The Living Church to its appeal for endowment contributions. Says TIME: "Last week's Living Church revealed the progress of the week's drive ?$80 had been received." No week's campaign, but only the receipts on Monday following the Saturday appeal was represented in that $80. During the fortnight following the appeal, $1,304 was received?not a large percentage of the $250,000 sought, but a beginning. The real campaign will come after the General Convention of the Episcopal Church (Sept...
...York Telephone Co. refused to lease its wires, said it was too big an order. Wired Music, it claimed, "has possibilities of extending to many thousands" of circuits; the company's policy has been to rent out only a part of its spare facilities. Temporarily balked, Wired Music appealed to the New York State Public Service Commission. Decision was that since New York Telephone Co. already leases wires, whether "spare" or not, to 200 broadcasting studios, it must do the same for Wired Music, whose request is identical. The telephone company hastened to appeal...
...kept down in consideration of his youth and the fact that he had merely obeyed his father, Col. Lea offered to assume an other two years if his son's conviction might be set aside. Judge Barnhill offered to do so if Col. Lea would agree not to appeal, but the condition was too stiff. The case was closed. The Leas posted bonds and went off to Nashville, free pending their appeals...
...Government made a beau geste to business when it did not appeal the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis permitting Standard Oil Co. of New York and Vacuum Oil Co. of New York to merge (TIME, June 15). Straightway every oil merger rumor of the last three years came to life. Last week a gusher of oil news spouted on the front page of every newspaper. Of greatest magnitude was the announcement that...
...Prize Novel Contest. Last winner was Expatriate Julian Green's The Dark Journey, a well-written bad seller. This time Publisher Harper, twice shy, has given his prize-money for a book that should not make his ledgers see red. Brothers in the West will not appeal to the precious few but should be read, wept over, thoroughly enjoyed by the common-or-garden reader...