Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe that most of the public lectures given in Cambridge and many of the lectures which form parts of formal courses offer orderly discussions of problems of general interest and, without any attempt to adapt them for broadcasting, will appeal to many listeners. Chapel services and musical programs clearly require no adaptation...
...talking about crowded calendars, dockets two and three years behind schedule, waste, expense, and inefficiency in litigation, and the consequent inaccessibility of justice to the "little fellow", Mr. Roosevelt's remarks, as they apply to district courts, and to a lesser extent to the circuit courts of appeal, are true as gospel. Yet to induce from the bad conditions prevalent in the lower courts that the top court needs remodeling is not only illogical: it is a blow to the hopes of all who are working towards a really effective judicial reform...
...Roosevelt points out have been refused review by the court. But writs of certiori have never been denied because the calendar forbade: cases have been turned down only because the court could see no probable or possible shadow of doubt in the decisions of the circuit courts of appeal. Yet these very appeal courts, which eliminate much of the work the Supreme Court would otherwise have to look after, Mr. Roosevelt would remove from the course of important cases, in his misdi-rected efforts to gain a more rapidly functioning court of last resort...
...Levis made some remarks on recent appeal of fencing to women, as several memebrs of the weaker sex were clashing swords in the adjoining room. "At first, we were afraid to have women in the sport, because we thought the public would think that the sport was becoming feminino. But with the advent of men like Coach Peroy, injecting fresh life into the game, fencing definitely changed from a soft sport with little aggressiveness, to one of severe competition, and of great masculinity. I guess that's what attracted the women...
...York State Bar Association with an indictment of the limited notion lawyers have of their profession. Then, with equal candor, he propounded his philosophy of law on which he built a program for legal education. Then he dared the Bar really to reform legal education. His dramatic appeal did not come kindly to all the listening legalists in the Waldorf-Astoria ballroom, but they voted him an honorary member of their Bar in admiration of his eloquence...