Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People. Could it be revived? Harry Truman made his follow-up play: he took his case to the people in another last-minute radio appeal, asked that they apply their pressure on Congressmen "to prevent inflation." An avalanche of telegrams descended on Washington (the White House reported that its wire score was 50 to 1 in favor of the President's action...
...start it had looked like a shoo-in for the Stassen camp. There was so much rejoicing that "Harold is home again," so much confidence in the prestige he had gained at the San Francisco Conference, so much faith in the appeal of the Stassen war record as Admiral Halsey's flag secretary that it seemed nothing could go wrong...
Pleas for housing facilities have been numerous and varied in method. Each of the Boston commercial radio stations have allotted to the cause on 15-minute broadcast monthly plus many spot announcements, and Boston's newspapers have carried the appeal. Letters have been sent to brokers, enlisting their aid; and President Conant's letter to alumni and friends of the College last January brought forth some apartments...
...Life Saver. Ingersoll plugged the Washington hole with a makeshift staff. To the 165,000 faithful, he had already prepared an appeal which he distributed this week. Said he: PM needs 100,000 new readers. In a PM-size, twelve page "Prospectus," Ingersoll blew the cap on PM's crisis-ridden history, in which he emerged as a combination Job and St. George of modern journalism...
...owners, who have strongly backed the Government suit, feared they were now no better off than before. The major companies, owning the best theaters and having the biggest bank accounts, could always outbid them for films. The chances were that the Antitrust Division, still holding out for divestiture, would appeal to the Supreme Court and put the case back in the grinder...