Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...primary race for U. S. Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith's seat from South Carolina. Mr. Roosevelt said it "clarified the issue" and he urged the voters to swing in behind Governor Olin D. Johnston, his agent to "purge" Senator Smith. Mr. Brown ruined the effect of this appeal by blasting Candidate Johnston as an insolent Huey Longster...
California law provides that each death sentence has automatic appeal to the Supreme Court before final judgement is made and date of execution set. At that time none on condemned row had gone through the Supreme Court. At date of this letter my appeal is still before the Court. In cases where the Supreme Court upholds conviction it usually is a matter of 3 to 4 months before actual execution takes place...
...Cartoonist Jack Knox of the Memphis Commercial Appeal expressed some Southerners' feelings about "the nation's No. 1 economic problem." He showed Uncle Sam stepping on his own toes, exclaiming: Oh! Oh! Something is wrong with my right foot...
...flying priest, this was almost a routine appeal. But it was not so routine that Father Schulte, as he flew north with his mechanic, Brother Beaudoin, omitted to inform the New York Times about his activities. Father Schulte dashed 360 miles to Chesterfield Inlet, found the only doctor ill, pushed on, was forced down by fog at Igloolik, reached Baffin Land to find Father Cochard still living, bundled him into the plane. Reported Father Schulte to the Times, after he got his colleague safely to a hospital in Chesterfield Inlet: "Father Cochard was not troubled with airsickness and was very...
Keep Smiling (Twentieth Century-Fox). Jane Withers, heretofore cinema's No. 1 brat, functioning as the ray of sunshine that brightens the career of a derelict movie director (Henry Wilcoxon), in a film designed to appeal mostly to moppets...