Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeal to the college undergraduates of the Commonwealth for safe and sane driving on the roads, Governor Hurley issued a statement last week that sounded off once again the everpresent need for careful automobiling. The demand which the Governor made, namely that the youth of the community realize the responsibilities they assume the minute they sit down at the wheel, is an eminently practical one, especially in view of the terrific toll that automobiles take each year on our population...
...essence the appeal of the Governor is such as should be made by every enlightened chief executive from time to time. And a rule which the sister state of Cinnecticut plasters on the windshields of every car might be taken as the best note for the appeal: "Drive so that your car is always under control...
This Chinese appeal for action to uphold treaties was followed by floods of words from Davis, Eden & Delbos. Their speeches were so nearly identical as obviously to have been written with heads together. All said, and Ambassador Davis also quote President Roosevelt as saying, that the sanctity of treaties must be upheld, all completely ignored Dr. Koo's plea that it be upheld, none proposed any measure to uphold it. With Italy voting "no" and with Norway, Sweden and Denmark abstaining, the rest of the Conference voted to adopt the Davis-Eden-Delbos motion, and the Conference adjourned...
...major war. The alternative, as His Majesty sees it, is for statesmen to learn something about economics and apply what they learn toward easing the world's stresses & strains, instead of holding endless conferences in terms of politics & prestige. King Leopold last summer made a public appeal for action along these lines so trenchant that the London Laborite Daily Herald said it "may alter world history." and the London Conservative Morning Post declared: "The very least that countries to which the appeal was directed can do is to give the proposal their urgent and sympathetic consideration." The proposal...
...discreet advertisements appeared in the columns of all papers except the chaste Times. They read: "If it's love you're after-? call Circle 7-5900." This pressagent come-on was aimed at the "mug trade," to eke out Actor Leslie Howard's acknowledged carriage-trade appeal. The Strand Theatre installed four extra telephone operators, armed them with a disarmingly commercial answer, waited for the fun to start. Of 11,000 calls handled up to opening day, about 60% came from curious women, 20% from tired business men who generally had their secretaries put the calls through...