Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprised. Most holding companies gave up hope long ago and began breaking up their systems. North American, whose appeal in 1943 from a Government order to divest itself of its 80 companies brought the Supreme Court into the fight, is still largely intact. It will now have to confine its activities to St. Louis (the Union Electric...
...Brien McMahon, which set up a control commission of five civilians. Then they tacked on (by a 10-to-1 vote) an amendment by Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg. It provided for a military board which would have access to all the commission's information and could appeal to the President if anything the civilians did seemed "inimical to the common defense." They also tacked on an amendment by Connecticut's Senator Thomas Hart, adding an advisory board of nine part-time experts to the commission...
Most of the Metropolitan Opera's radio listeners have never seen the Diamond Horseshoe, but they help keep it glittering. The Met got a third of its funds from radio fans in its last appeal for help. Curious to know its radio fans' taste in opera, the Met asked 123,000 of them to pick their favorite operas. The choices: 1) A'ida, 2) Carmen, 3) La Traviata. Among operas less frequently heard, listeners picked Hansel and Gretel, Boris Gudunov, and Der Rosenkavalier. (The Met promised to broadcast all six next year.) Notably unchosen: Wagner...
...friendly" government in Teheran, for instance, would not appeal to UNO. At week's end the Russians were reported asking for a token of his cooperation in the form of oil concessions in northern Iran; if Gavam gave in, Moscow might decide that the Red Army's presence was unnecessary. Then Britain and the U.S. would have to decide whether to bring before UNO a charge that Russia had coerced Iran into "friendship." If Iran was a sample, disputes before UNO were likely to partake of the bewildering complexity of the British divorce courts rather than the classic...
...soldiers who did not want to return to the new Poland could find asylum in the British Empire. Argentina and Brazil were also reported ready to offer them homes. But Britain thought the best solution would be for them to return to Poland, and Britain was circulating an appeal through the Polish Army containing the Polish Government's pledge to treat the soldier exiles fairly...