Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right words. "I fear," he said, "I am speaking to minds that are closed." It is only reasonable, he pleaded, to give a far-reaching legislative idea a fair trial. Though popular Sam Rayburn has immense prestige, the Congressmen listened coldly. Seeing them unmoved, Sam made a brazen appeal to the patronage instinct: "Let me say to you, my Democratic friends, that I found out a long time ago that in this House the people get along the best who go along the most." He switched to ominous prophecy: "Some of these days, unless we pay a little more attention...
Battle concentrated his fire on the man who was the greatest threat to Harry Byrd's political future-bald, ruddy Francis Pickens Miller, 54, onetime Rhodes scholar, veteran of both World Wars, longtime New Dealer. Miller had the social background to appeal to many Byrd-backing Virginians (as a child, his mother had been taken for rides on General Robert E. Lee's horse, Traveller) and he had the support of Virginia's growing labor movement plus a large share of the Negroes, now voting in increasing numbers...
...could walk out a free man, I would walk beside him . . . Never once did he do anything of which my mother would be ashamed." But News of the World's 8,000,000 readers would have to wait for Haigh's own story. Until his appeal had been heard, English law, safeguarding his rights to the end, would not permit Haigh to prejudice his case by telling all in public...
...Reason, and Masonry's doctrine of fraternity, equality and enlightenment had a wide appeal. Frederick the Great became a member. Russian aristocrats took it up. English traders distributed charters for new lodges overseas. George Washington and Paul Revere were ardent brethren. So was Benjamin Franklin, deist and moralizer, who helped initiate Voltaire into the rites...
...itself had already cracked down on another non-sked, California's Standard Airlines, for violating the rules for "irregulars" by flying too regularly. It had revoked Standard's operating certificate, effective this week (TIME, July 4) Last week, while Standard awaited the outcome of its appeal on CAB's ruling, one of its planes, a C-46, crashed into a California mountainside. The dead...