Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Australia. Bustling George Garcia, the Australian Chairman of Aspro Ltd. which sells Europeans half a billion headache tablets yearly, crowed: "I am elated. Australia has always been keen on the Royal Family. We want a governor general from outside the Dominion who can make unprejudiced decisions. The Duchess will appeal to Australians because she is beautiful and chic and a mother...
...group known as the Young Annam League, which fought for dominion status for Indo-China, he was soon in trouble. He had collected Khmer statuary which the authorities insisted should be turned over to the Government. Malraux refused, lost a suit in the lower courts but won an appeal when it was learned that the documents submitted in the case dealt not with art but with Malraux's connection with the Young Annam League...
Board May Appeal...
...Liberties Union and other outraged liberals began wiring Franklin Roosevelt and the Department of Labor, which straightway granted Writer Strachey a hearing on a technicality having nothing to do with Communism. As he repaired there at week's end, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear an appeal on the Strecker deportation case. This case may establish that membership in the Communist Party is not in itself grounds for deportation...
...vibrant speeches, particularly the famed "House Divided" one, and lets their message carry forward into the present. Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a frequently inexpert play, slow in getting started, discontinuous in structure, too literary in some of its writing, too emotional in some of its appeal. But it is also a fervent play, burning fiercely with the spirit of what Lincoln, rightly or wrongly, has come to stand for in the hearts of his countrymen...