Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt's appeal was the best possible preparation of the public for such a constitutional amendment or limitation of the Court's power as other New Dealers had hastily proposed. The political opportunity for taking such measures may well be an adverse decision on the Wagner Labor Relations Act or similar New Deal measures. The Court, however, must now dread taking such a step far more than if the President had taken a threatening tone. For now the Court itself rather than the President will appear to be forcing the issue. By his message to Congress Franklin...
...tearjerkers, the screen's No. i tragedienne and the industry's current male box-office sensation. The result, against the lush background of Art Director Cedric Gibbons' notion of 19th Century Paris, equipped with generous measures of sorrow, pictorial beauty, charm, plot, glamour and audience appeal, amounts to a Camillennium...
...mind the past three years has been another idea: a guild for lawyers that would give them a freedom for liberal thought and action not provided by the A. B. A. and its House of Delegates. Last autumn Mr. Ernst and some friends wrote a terse 500-word "Appeal to American Lawyers" which pulled no punches, sent it far & wide to U. S. legalists over the name of Frank Patrick Walsh, onetime member of the War Labor Conference Board, now a Manhattan attorney, who agreed to act as Guild president in its organizational stages...
...schedules required by the Securities & Exchange Commission, this list was compiled from income tax returns. Highest-paid individual in the land that year was William Randolph Hearst, who drew $500,000 as head of Hearst Consolidated Publications Inc. A close second was Mae West. For her box-office sex appeal, the corporeal basis of which she has had immortalized in marble, Paramount paid...
...seem abnormal. Lola Kinel, a Polish girl whose family lived in Petrograd, had no more than her share of Wartime and post-War cyclones, but to U. S. readers the weather she lived through seems stormy indeed. A cut above the usual adventure-autobiography, This Is My Affair should appeal to those who find true stories as readable as novels and often more entertaining...