Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brief speech the President used the word "spiritual" twelve times to describe the quality of the Red Cross and the public response to its $10,000,000 appeal. He credited its "farsighted and early action" with averting "infinite suffering." He praised it for resisting the movement in Congress to make it a distributing agent for Treasury funds. Excerpts...
Dismissed, Gangman Capone posed for photographs, smiled happily. Still pending on appeal is his sentence to six months in jail for contempt of Federal court (TIME, March...
...Finnish janitor was represented by a Negro defense attorney who at once pleaded the prisoner "guilty," appealed for mercy to the so-called Court. Anyone hearing this appeal might have supposed that the prisoner was in gravest peril. "Don't expel him from the party!" begged Negro Counsel Richard B. Moore (onetime Communist candidate for State's Attorney General). "Expulsion from the party is worse than death at the hands of the bourgeoisie! I would rather have my head severed by lynchers than be expelled from the Communist International...
Under $500 bail, promptly supplied, the Finn went temporarily free while his attorneys (real ones this time) presented an appeal. In the mock-sentence of the Red court it had been provided that Janitor Yokinen may be re-admitted to the Communist Party if he: 1) diligently agitates for admission of Negroes to the Finnish Workers' Educational Club of which he is janitor and in which he committed "white chauvinism" by objecting to the presence of three Negroes; 2) joins the League of Struggle for Negro Rights; 3) leads a demonstration against "Jim-Crow" restaurants in Harlem...
...Rosenkavalier Waltzes by Bruno Walter and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Columbia, $2)-Manhattan's new man promises great Strauss for next year. The recording is excellent. Songs & Ballads: Love is Like That and You're the One I Care For (Columbia)-As usual Ruth Etting's appeal heads the list. Her mood is comparatively gay. Would You Like To Take a Walk and One Little Raindrop (Victor)-Mr. & Mrs. Frank Crumit (Julia Sanderson) with jaunty accompaniments. When Your Lover Has Gone and Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone (Victor)-Gene Austin...