Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upheld by the State's highest court on the last day of 1936 in the case of Fearon v. Treanor was the section of the law banning breach of promise suits. Last week in the U. S. Supreme Court Nurse Catherine Fearon of New York filed an appeal seeking to have New York's anti-heart balm act declared unconstitutional. Cited by her lawyer was Article I, section 10 of the U. S. Constitution: "No State shall.. . pass any . . . law impairing the obligation of contracts. . . ." In the Hanfgarn v. Mark opinion New York's Court...
...have been conducted on a level of crudity and indecency that would doubtless bring flushes of shame to the most unblushing Parisian chorine, much more to Manhattan's polyglot population with its admixture of northern blood. Succumbing to their own ambition for spotlights and publicity and big box-office appeal, the leaders of the trade have made too much noise, and no less an authority than Ann Corio has claimed that the industry was "getting along nicely as long as Mr. Minsky kept his nose out of it". And secondly those who have risen in indignation to put a stop...
...regard it as extremely important that we should achieve a balance of actual income and outgo for the fiscal year 1938, and I appeal to you to join me in a determined effort to bring about that result...
...boiled across the border to begin his one-man stand against an alien invasion. As a coming man in Canadian politics, pointed to succeed Mackenzie King as Dominion Prime Minister, his rousing blasts at "John L. Lewis and communism" were nicely calculated not only to make a surefire appeal to Canada's patriotic masses, but also to placate conservative voters hitherto repelled by his loud New-Dealishness. Nor could his countrymen be unaware that the U. S. headlines "Mitch" Hepburn was making were prime advertising of Canada as a haven to which timorous U. S. Industry might flee from...
...freighters, which will add about 20% to lake crews this year the Association this spring hiked wages back nearly to 1929 levels, beginning at $87 a month for common seamen. Holding out for still higher pay, however, Detroit sailors last week were stubborn enough to cause an appeal for Federal mediation. At Hamilton, Ont., 235 longshoremen struck for a new 50?-per-hour contract. Somewhat alarmed over these signs of the times on the lake front, miners and steelmen in Duluth began considering what had never been considered before-the possibility of shipping iron ore east by rail...