Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Champions of the loan were skeptical enough to extend themselves to unusual last-minute efforts. President Truman dashed off a special letter of appeal; Secretary of State Byrnes cabled anxiously from Paris; from retirement old Cordell Hull added more arguments to the weight of pressure...
...good years with widespread debt retirement, lower taxes in baa years with added debt if necessary). To citizens haunted by the U.S.'s massive debt and tlie inflationary influences of an unbalanced budget, it looked good. But to politicians, a compensatory fiscal program has no campaign sex appeal. By election time Congressmen may decide that a tax cut is a better campaign approach...
Delegates to the annual American Medical Association convention in San Francisco last week (see MEDICINE) saw a remarkable appeal to citizens. On a billboard near the Civic Auditorium was the portrait of a vaguely sinister man whose face was hidden by a tilted derby. A legend read: "Don't surrender your city to the faceless man. Vote no on recall...
When they were forced to desist in operating the table in front of the Coop, they asked permission merely to distribute their literature. This appeal was effectively denied them when it was ruled they could make the distribution, but that they would be prosecuted if any papers were scattered around the streets...
...female minds were probed for a possible explanation of these trends. Typical students interviewed agreed Comparative Literature 65 was "a hard course." This phrase was interpreted to mean the lectures are conducted on a high intellectual plane and reading assignments are relatively long. Proust, Joyce, and Mann have great appeal as modern writers, and the lecturer, Associate Professor Harry T. Levin '33 was termed "impressive...