Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refused to work on Saturday, President Hoover went to his Rapidan camp for the weekend, took Senators Allen of Kansas and Vandenberg of Michigan, "Young Guardsmen" supporting the Treaty, along with him to discuss the Senate situation. They urged him to prod the Senate forward by making a public appeal. They complained that Republican Senate Leader Watson was not leading as a good leader should, admitted that the slim Senate quorum might collapse altogether if Senator Watson tried to press the opposition too hard. They speculated to the President on applying cloture to the Senate debate, ordering the Sergeant...
Dodo So-&-So. Against the opposition's clamor, Senator Reed began to make more specific explanations: "Now, an appeal to the horse sense of the Senate. When the American delegates to the London Conference were named, the British, Japanese, Italian and French Ambassadors undoubtedly reported back to their Governments the character of the delegates. It is open to assume that communications of this character were likewise made by Ambassador Dawes. He might have said: 'Sir What's His Name Snooks is a very shrewd man. He deals very closely and has to be watched...
...soon as it was announced, weeks ago, that the Emperor of India was going to open India House, numerous British editors sprang to the conclusion that a weighty and stirring appeal would pass through that microphone. With no official authorization whatever, they insisted that His Majesty was going to use the dedication of India House as an opportunity to make the speech of his life. Is not the Indian Empire on a brink? They recalled the occasion in 1921 when at Belfast the Royal appeal "Forgive and forget!" did much to end the Irish War. They prophesied that at India...
...excited, Wets everywhere were. They hailed the Ambassador-nominee as their protagonist, repeated that he is "presidential timber." Nevertheless many a Dry felt that Mr. Morrow's appeal was through his personality, agreed with Funnyman Will Rogers that "he could have run as a Bolshevik...
...frankness, and so on. It has finally dawned upon me that the story of a man's emotional strivings and strugglings are bound to be all these things. They make good reading but do not last, for any other true story, confession, or what you will, has the same appeal...