Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking as "a citizen of New York" from his "own fireside" at Hyde Park he broadcast a pre-election appeal. Its theme was: "Social or economic gain made by one administration may and often does evaporate into thin air under the next. . . . We have to have reasonable continuity in liberal government to get permanent results. . . .* If American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism and communism aided, unconsciously perhaps, by old-line Tory Republicanism will grow in strength...
Last week Speaker Dr. Sun Fo of the Chinese assembly broadcast from Chung-king a nationwide appeal: "All the Chinese people must work for closer cooperation with Russia." United Press reported neutral military attachés in China estimate that about 100 Soviet Red Army officers have now arrived to advise Generalissimo Chiang and his subordinate commanders. The original conquest of China by Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Oct. 25, 1926) was accomplished with the technical assistance of Soviet General "Galen," later known as Marshal Vassily Bluecher and recently purged by Stalin. Hong Kong dispatches this week reported Chiang & Advisers about...
...Washington society, where sex appeal and politics are potent and appreciated, formidable Evie Robert is considered a rising power. Her husband was a convivial industrial architect, New Deal fixer and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury before he got his present party post. Evie, who rarely mentions her first husband,* was 26 in 1935 when she took the 48-year-old Chip as her second. They live in a gilded suite in the Mayflower, stage some of Washington's liveliest parties. Evie's stock of racy anecdotes about big-shot politicos is apparently inexhaustible. Naturally she does not write...
When the case of the four Freshman parade-busters comes up for trial by appeal in Superior Court sometime next week, Police Chief Timothy Leahy will probably hie himself to court and request that charges be dropped, he said yesterday...
Convicted last October 19 of "disrupting a public assembly" in the Legion "riot" of October 6, Frank Pemberton, Jr., '42, James M. Blumgarten '42, John S. Caylor '42 and Joseph Ambrese '42 will not appear in court today to appeal the verdict handed down by Judge Arthur Stone as had originally been scheduled...