Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What arguments President Roosevelt would muster in two-syllable words for that important appeal were last week foreshadowed by an interview he gave. Arthur Krock, No. 1 Washington correspondent of the New York Times, was admitted to the Presidential presence and given the benefit of a pontifical discussion of the issue by the man most interested. Mr. Krock managed to get one paragraph for quasi-direct quotation ("the President this week has been saying to his friends"): "When I retire to private life on Jan. 20, 1941, I do not want to leave the country in the condition Buchanan left...
Last year, when the New Deal's appeal to "the underprivileged" was at its most ominous for people of "entrenched wealth," the First National Bank in Reno and the Nevada State Journal set out to promote Nevada as a sort of financial cyclone cellar. To a pedigreed list of 10,000 prospects they sent out a booklet in which the bank's former president, Governor Richard Kirman Sr.* presented to people of wealth sound fiscal reasons why they should become Nevada residents. Attorney General Gray Mashburn explained the simple legal steps required. And the booklet emphasized that "Nevada...
...separated from her husband. By no means abashed was Mrs. Clarke's attorney, C. R. McKeown who warmly contends that the fact that Mrs. Clarke has been married at all makes a difference. Said he: "After all, the children were not born out of wedlock. ... I may appeal from the decision." Mrs. Clarke was resigned, declared: "It was just a gamble anyway as far as I was concerned. I had the children anyway and I have made a little money out of contracts through being in the race...
Attorneys for the plaintiff who presented the appeal from the Superior to the Supreme Court of the Ames Competition, Frederick C. Troll 2L and Edward B. Scott 2L lost their case to the relatively simpler defense of attorneys John L. Burling 2L and William H. Smith...
Though the social side makes a strong appeal to the men who engage in House plays, perhaps the spontaneity which enliven the productions is most to be admired. When Lowell presented "The Beggar's Opera" several years ago, the audience was resigned beforehand to a poor attempt at a difficult play. Yet so good were the acting and singing that, in spite of themselves, the spectators laughed with the actors. The excellence of the performance was not due, by any means, to the experience of the players, but to their desire for self-entertainment, which is the essence of these...