Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High war prices, caused by money being a lot more plentiful than goods, are already beginning to worry Great Britain. Economist Keynes's plan had a particular appeal as a price-keeper-downer since it would lock up money that would otherwise be spent. To keep down the price of consumer goods, to temper the war inflation for those who do not enjoy its upward effect on wages and speculative profits, Mr. Keynes proposed a double levy on all incomes, one part to consist of tax, the other of low-interest (2½%) loan to the Government...
...contrast to this political diagram for a European superState, the appeal of the Anglo-French formula (now being bruited by diplomatists and pundits in all European capitals-even in Berlin through secret emissaries) is that it envisions a mainly economic European union...
Beset by these actualities and bedeviled by these probabilities, the Queen of The Netherlands has opened her mouth in many a peace appeal, kept it closed in many a case of violated neutrality during the past few months in a desperate effort to keep her political hot corner out of the war play. As never before, the little monarchy, squeezed between Europe's antagonistic No. 1 sea and land powers, is anxious to remain neutral...
...capitol in the world." Fortnight ago Mrs. Johnson faced eviction from her studio-home in Washington. Thereupon she did what Susan Anthony, no believer in shillyshally, would have heartily approved: she took a hammer, smashed half her statuary, called in the press. To Painter Rockwell Kent's wired appeal that she stop her smashing she retorted: "That is a matter between myself...
Significance. When prosecution loomed, Ford and Chrysler accepted consent decrees, agreeing not to compel dealers to use their finance companies, provided that General Motors stood trial and lost. General Motors, carrying the ball for the big three, expects to appeal the case all the way to the Supreme Court. The final decision in G. M.'s case will determine whether the 370-odd independent U. S. finance companies can cut themselves in on the profitable installment business of the motor industry...