Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the John Reed Society and the Committee to Save Harvard Education were simultaneously turned down by the Corporation on Monday, they were stymied by what is in effect the University's highest court of appeal...
...imperialism" and cried, "There is a limit to everything. Finland cannot accept the proposals of the Soviet Union and will defend her territory and her inviolability and independence by all means!" Pravda headlined its story ERKKO INCITES TO WAR!, editorialized that this speech "cannot be understood except as an appeal for war against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics." In Moscow only the diplomatic-journalistic colony was aware that Mr. Erkko never uttered the words quoted by Pravda but in fact made a conciliatory speech designed to string out further the protracted Finnish-Soviet negotiations (TIME, Nov. 6, et ante...
...words were greeted with howls of "Shame! Shame!" Up rose B. C.'s Premier Thomas D. Pattullo to chide her-and incidentally to prove that antitotalitarian nations must adopt semi-totalitarian methods to achieve their ends: "I am sorry at the honorable lady member's attitude, and appeal that no other member of this House give similar utterances. It is fortunate she is living in a country where tolerance is enjoyed. I doubt if she would be allowed such latitude in her native Holland. If such words are again uttered, I shall have to advise Ottawa for action...
Stackpole took the case to the Supreme Court, last fortnight lost their appeal when the Court declined to review a Circuit Court decision authorizing the temporary injunction. U. S. as well as refugee writers hailed the decision as a big victory for honest dealing in international copyright. As soon as the suits for permanent injunction and damages are settled finally, Hitler will get his U. S. royalties. Sales to date (Reynal & Hitchcock edition...
...committee said that it will continue to circulate the petition over the week-end. "In signing this petition," the appeal reads, "we do not signify our approval of Mr. Browder's point of view, but affirm the right of Harvard students to hear...