Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Down. The public campaign was as plain-spoken as the anti-VD drives directed at servicemen during the war. Motorists in Arkansas found themselves questioned by billboards: "Have you got syphilis?" Barflies put nickels in Washington jukeboxes to hear a Negro quartet sing Put It Down, an appeal to stamp out VD. The Columbia Center was about to issue a recording by Balladeer Tom Glazer of a twangy song called An Ignorant Cowboy. Its last stanza...
...Tass, a London court made a clarifying decision last week. Vladimir Krajina, a refugee Czech now living in London, had filed a libel suit against Tass for charging in a news bulletin distributed to London newspapers that he had betrayed British paratroopers to the Gestapo. The Court of Appeal dismissed Krajina's complaint. Reason: on the testimony of the Russian ambassador himself, Tass was an official organ of the Soviet state; as such, it was entitled to full diplomatic immunity, even when it published a libel...
...Appeal lor Help. Harassed Hawaiians, fearful of the ruthless hold that Harry Bridges had fastened on their islands, turned to Washington for help. In three days last week, 3,930 Hawaiians (including at least a few I.L.W.U. men opposed to the strike) contributed $10,650 to a Honolulu Advertiser campaign to pay for huge two-page ads describing their plight in the Washington Post and Evening Star and the New York Times. "We know that the people of the 48 states do not know what the people of Hawaii are up against," said...
...general election campaign that ends June 27, but the weather did not stop them. They just peeled off their coats and went on with the job. In the past eight weeks Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and Tory Leader George Drew had crisscrossed the Dominion in an appeal for votes. Despite all their oratory, the country's political temperature had stayed close to normal. It apparently would remain that way until election...
This whole problem raises a grave dilemma, as my letter doubtless indicates; I cannot find any simple answer. I should like to see Marxist doctrine vigorously and clearly expounded in our universities; we must understand the strength of Communism, and the power of its appeal to many people, if we are to act wisely in the world today. But a frank clear exposition of Marxist doctrine is the last thing to be expected from men trained to work by undercover methods. The usual formulas by which one attempts to guarantee freedom of speech and teaching are all, I fear, inadequate...