Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeal for $125,000 backed by the Lord Mayor himself is being made in London for the restoration of Southwark Cathedral where John Harvard was baptised and later married...
...Farley and the boys are not content with profaning the name of America's first gentleman and alienating the country's philatelists against he who claims to be the number one stamp collector as well as the first man of America. In a paltry appeal to the women's vote, they have chosen to make Martha Washington half again as valuable as her worthy spouse. Thomas Jefferson, whose name rests on his plan for sending Black Fact Indians to Harvard, is given the coveted three-cent berth. And with grim irony Benjamin Franklin, who enjoyed the title of Post master...
...Grace has had his troubles with the Law. Four years ago in Brooklyn he was convicted of having violated the Mann Act by taking a 20-year-old pianist to Philadelphia and Washington. Sentenced to a year and a day in jail, Grace got the sentence set aside on appeal. Later he was indicted in Baltimore, charged with defrauding the Government of more than $15,000 in income taxes on nearly $200,000 which he was alleged to have made between 1927 and 1932. The indictment was dropped because courts have held that free-will gifts are not taxable income...
...University is really badly frightened by the spectre of taxation by a private organization, it still need not fail in its sincere attempt to aid its employees. President Conant could appeal to the alumni for funds to help the University provide adequate pensions for all its employees. And this on the principle that Harvard owes an obligation to its employees as well as to students; that there is no fundamental opposition between these two obligations; that in fact a University can educate its students to new situations and responsibilities by practice as well as precept...
Joseph Stalin's letter contained not only an appeal but also a statement: "The aid of the international proletariat appears to be a force without which the final victory of socialism in one country is not to be decided." That was not precisely a clarion call for world revolution but it was enough of a hint of old-fashioned Bolshevism to set off speculation on a possible shift in the Communist Party "line." For the keystone of the "line" has lately been not world revolution but co-operation with the capitalist democracies for a collective stand against fascism...