Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council, struck the meeting's keynote in appraising the Mission. To his 300 hearers, who represent all the Protestant unity there is in the U. S.-a cautious confederation of 23 denominations with 24,000,000 communicants-Dr. Holt said: "It must be perfectly evident that the appeal of the Missioners has been that of united Protestantism. . . . American Protestantism faces reorganization or disintegration. The Federal Council occupies a more strategic position for leadership in this reorganization than ever before in its history...
...free time with interesting programs. President David Sarnoff of Radio Corp. of America bluntly declared: "Radio programs can be created to inform the mind and elevate the spirit, but when one seeks to impose upon them the requirement that they also furnish mental training and discipline, one narrows their appeal and risks the dispersion of the invisible audience...
...Consolidated's annual stockholders' meeting in 1934, however, Harry Sinclair showed his ace. He announced that a deal was on with Henry L. Doherty to buy Richfield jointly. Same day, in California, Cities Service as one of Richfield's principal bondholders started an appeal in U. S. Circuit Court against the Richfield-Standard deal on the ground that the amount offered was grossly inadequate under California...
...prefers his farm in Virginia, where he likes to hunt the fox. Last June he went to the Republican convention in Cleveland as a Virginia delegate. Even if taxes had not looked so grim, President McConnell might have considered abandoning Mayflower. The profit motive has lost its appeal for him. "Just grew out of it," he says...
...early days of the Civil War, when Jay Cooke was a pious, 40-year-old, moderately successful Philadelphia banker, he wrote a frantic appeal to his brother in Columbus, Ohio: "I see Chase is in the Treasy, & now what is to be done-can't you . . . open a Banking house in Washn & be something respectable-or at least can't you inaugurate something whereby we can all safely make some Cash?" Unaware at that point were the Cooke brothers that they were about to become the greatest bankers in the country, to finance the greatest industrial enterprise...