Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outcome of Lloyd Wilson's appeal interests me very much. A very capable and highly regarded local C. P. A. is of the opinion Wilson's case will be considered a "frivolous appeal" and that he will be fined $500. He has been unable to find the case in the Board of Tax Appeal Service...
...appeal by the Greater Boston Community Fund campaign Harvard has responded to the tune of $26,000 according to Stanley C. Salmen, assistant to Jerome D. Greene, secretary of the Corporation and chairman of the University drive...
...inch in 1936, when it upheld TVA's right to sell the power generated by its flood-control activities at Wilson Dam (Muscle Shoals). Last week the Court handed down a 5-to-2 decision* that gave TVA a mile. Fourteen private power companies had appealed from a Federal court decision, which affirmed the constitutionality of TVA's entire power program and held that any loss they suffered from TVA competition was damnum absque injuria (loss without a legal comeback). In moderate Justice Roberts' decision, the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of the companies because "neither their...
...under modern conditions between highly organized States can bring no good," the manifesto declared. "We appeal above all to the leaders and people in the Great German Reich at this moment of power and influence in their history. We appeal to them to use those great gifts by which they have for centuries enriched our common heritage ... to join with us in a supreme effort to lay the spectre of war." A good idea of the impression this kind of amiable but useless talk makes on the dictators was presented in a cartoon printed in the Glasgow Daily Record & Mail...
...easier than tutorial, yet for an ideal some individual consideration is superior to none. Thus the C man wants a compromise between the two; he does not object to tutorial if at the same time he can have excellent lecturing. For this reason Dean Hanford's suggestion has great appeal-that the traditional scheme may in part be adjusted to those disliking specialization by improving the courses taken primarily for distribution purposes and by providing a large number of stimulating lectures...