Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whenever U. S. citizens are asked to contribute to the Red Cross by whoever at the time happens to be U. S. President, the prestige of his great office has usually been enough to turn the trick. U. S. citizens have responded to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's appeal that they give the Red Cross $1,000,000 for the succor of the Chinese people by contributing to date some...
...wolf is at the door for the baseball managerial staff with only one Freshman having turned up for the 1941 competition. Since a competition by definition means more than one candidate, an urgent appeal was forthcoming from Varsity manager Gray Thoron '38 for more Yardling managerial fodder. Aspirants are asked to report to the Dillon Field House at 2:15 today. The winner of the spring contest will receive his numerals...
...second appeal, to those who have not yet paid the pledges they made last September, will go in the mails next week, and the Council urged that every effort be made by students to send in their checks as soon as possible in payment of these pledges to the Council office at Phillips Brooks House...
Prompt financial response met an appeal by James A. Rousmaniere '40, Secretary, the remaining sum necessary to enable the club to purchase two second-hand dinghies costing $150 apiece being subscribed. It is expected that the boats will arrive at the Union Boat Club this weekend or next...
...final emotional appeal the Premier undertook to tell the "dotards" that not they but the members of the Chamber, who are a few years younger, alone had any right to upset the Popular Front. "Even if you desire such a change in the majority," cried Orator Blum, his voice rising, "it is only for the Chamber, elected by universal suffrage!" Here Senate President Jules Jeanneney cut the Premier short: "Mr. Premier, it is for the Senate, which is an assembly of the Republic, to pronounce its opinion freely-and it will do so in a few minutes...