Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jews and forced to leave Vienna very soon. Therefore I appeal in our great trouble to you--an Aryan--and ask you whether you, perhaps through your esteemed parents or another noble-minded personality, would be so good as to provide us with an affidavit." Thus writes Catherine Spiegler, a typical oppressed German Jewess, to Samuel Burrit Lacy, Jr. '41, who claims she is a perfect stranger...
Voting 20 new scholarships of $500 each for qualified refugee students of any creed from Germany, the Corporation yesterday responded to the appeal of the Harvard Committee for Refugees, despite the fact that most scholarship funds have already been allotted...
This, however, does not spell failure. From the readiness of Harvard students to send an ambulance to Spain a year ago, it is apparent that an appeal to their pockets for what seems a more practical humanitarian aim will receive full response. But we think that the appeal will succeed without door-to-door canvassing. As the incident of the Spanish ambulance showed, such a procedure adds the distasteful angle of compulsion to what should be purely voluntary contributions. By prominent display money can be collected just as well in the dining halls and in classroom entries...
...believed the existence of a "permanent" rival would chasten A. F. of L.'s more pugnacious leaders and make the Federation "see light." Some of the younger Leftist militants (chiefly Longshoreman Harry Bridges, Sailor Joe Curran) wanted Leader Lewis to go beyond his stand for Peace with Honor, appeal directly to A. F. of L. rank & filers to override William Green and re unite on C. I. O. terms. Mr. Lewis neatly suppressed that move. Then he permitted every union president worth mentioning, Bridges & Curran included, to parade to the platform. They upheld his position that...
After radiorating a "Help Grynszpan!" appeal, which she addressed exclusively to Aryans, Miss Thompson had received at latest reports more than $20,000 in voluntary contributions, and was busy at an office she had opened on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan...