Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign. Because no other private citizens in the land can match the political prestige of the onetime Republican President or of the onetime Democratic presidential nominee, their words went far & wide across the nation. Characteristically, Citizen Coolidge chose the hushed solitude of a radio broadcasting studio at Springfield to appeal for the election of his old friend, William Morgan Butler, Republican nominee for the Senate. Equally in character, Citizen Smith chose the raucous, turbulent, packed-to-the-doors Boston Arena to plead for the election of Marcus Aurelius Coolidge, the Democratic nominee...
...Dwight Morrow surprised Calles by being human. A University President got a second million out of a philanthropist by making sure that the first million was thoroughly publicized. Famed Realtor Joseph P. Day sold an old-fashioned office building to Steel's late great Judge Gary by a neat appeal to sentiment...
From the lecture courses students particularly interested and qualified would be chosen for honor work in one or more fields, continuing to attend such lectures in the other fields as appeal to them. --New York Times...
...years ago we stood on the battlefields of Palestine under your leadership, prepared to sacrifice our lives for the redemption of the Holy Land. In those days we learned to look up to you for your integrity and high sense of honor. In this hour of crisis your soldiers appeal to you to prevail upon your fellow British citizens to resist this latest attempt to impugn British honor and to discredit the British sense of fair play and justice...
...this its semicentennial year, there is now in progress a drive for $3,000,000 to increase faculty pay, provide a teacher-retirement fund, secure upkeep for the physical property. Last week President Speer was happy to announce that one-half of the fund had been raised, that an appeal for funds had been laid before Edward Stephen Harkness, a seemingly inexhaustible source of educational charity ($26.000,000 to Yale and Harvard in three years...