Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thank you most sincerely for the very intelligent, succinct, accurate and safe publicity which you have given to the fight against cancer in your recent issue of TIME. I know of no single item of voluntary publicity appearing in a periodical that has made quite such a definite appeal to me. The question is such a difficult one and requires so much repetition of facts in order to educate the public that the service which you have rendered cannot, I think, be overestimated. It is another instance where TIME has caught itself by the forelock...
Along with Will Rogers, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Calvin Coolidge, Mary Pickford, last week President Hoover made a radio appeal in behalf of the $10,000,000 Red Cross Drought Relief fund. Said he:"It is unthinkable that any of our people should suffer from hunger or want. The heart of the nation will not permit it. It is to the heart of the nation that I am appealing tonight. I urge all of my fellow countrymen to contribute promptly and in accordance with their means" It was generally agreed that the President's speech sounded more like reading-from...
...locked up again. In Calcutta, simultaneously, Nationalist S. Chandra Bose was let out of jail. He promptly resumed his Nationalist oratory, was locked up again by policemen who doubtless felt foolish. In London, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald all but sobbed with emotion in a typical appeal to the House of Commons as debate on the Round Table Conference work began: "If you are prepared to march our soldiers from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin, if you are prepared to stage-for the world to behold-the failure of our political genius and to provide, simultaneously, the spectacle of bringing...
...fact that she has shown more liberality in her treatment of the Indian problem than was expected in many quarters. The greatest difficulty with which she is confronted is the Indian temperament. The followers of Gandhi are so constituted that Western materialism and its dubious benefits have slight appeal for them. If poor living conditions and widespread illiteracy are the prices to be paid for foregoing the mechanization of her civilization and continued British exploitation, India is willing to pay the price. The next few weeks will determine whether the Nationalists are prepared to accept the proffered semi-freedom...
...three thousand people a day, but my radio audiences are up in the millions I give them simply music of a kind that many people like. My popularity has not diminished the fame of Whiteman and the others, for I have only brought out another element in a direct appeal to the heart...