Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theme was the historic conflict of State and Federal authority-a conflict in which the Governors and their predecessors for 150 years had been reluctantly giving ground. Wyoming's Miller urged interchange of State data to eliminate gasoline-tax evasion. Handsome Governor Allred of Texas delivered a thoughtful appeal for closer co-operation between State parole boards. The rest of the speeches, almost without exception, were devoted to encroachment of Federal power. Topics of discussion and typical ejaculations...
...Chinese Dictator Chiang Kaishek, their job was to raise the moral issue of the undeclared war Japan is now waging in China before the Assembly of the League and the conscience of the World. Too wise to beat their breasts or attempt either a pious or an ethical appeal, Dr. Koo and Dr. Quo simply arrived in Geneva much before the Assembly was to meet and conversed intelligently with the more prominent correspondents...
...July 20. 1931), a gloomy lengthy melodrama, was a surprise best seller. In neither of his professions has Dr. Cronin paid much attention to the rules. To the lay reader the "cut-shop" (medical jargon ) in The Citadel may seem tedious and overdone: but to many The Citadel will appeal as a spunky onslaught on an unco-sacrosanct stronghold. For "the bogus orf Harley-street" Dr. Cronin reserves his heaviest guns. Writing in London's Daily Express after the book's publication in Britain, he thundered: "I say to you, in all seriousness, that if half of this...
...thought it would save money, the biennial convention was approved. Also approved was a resolution to change the name of the union to International Union of United Automobile & Aircraft Workers. Homer Martin got a face-saving concession, the power to suspend any other officers in "emergencies." subject to appeal to the executive board. The problem of who the officers would be was neatly solved by increasing the number of vice presidents by two to make room for Mr. Martin's candidates, promising 30-year-old Detroit Organizer Richard Frankensteen, and President Roland J. Thomas of the Chrysler local. When...
...west front of the Cathedral. Here he lives with his handsome wife Carmen, whom he married eleven years ago while on duty in Oviedo, and his daughter Carmencita, who is two years younger than Britain's Princess Elizabeth. Nine months ago the Bureau for Press & Propaganda issued an appeal signed by Dona Carmencita to all other nine-year-olds to pray for peace and papa's victory. Beyond that she has avoided the limelight. Dona Carmen Polo de Franco is patron of the Rightist Red Cross, frequently officiates at charity bullfights...