Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made a mistake. Anyhow, tall, tactless Viscount Hinching-brooke, 39-year-old Tory M.P. for South Dorset, was invited to open National Savings Week in seaside Swanage. The Viscount did not say what he was supposed to say on such an occasion-quite the opposite. Cried he: "If the appeal to you . . . is national savings for the nationalization of the mines, my counsel to you is to reject it. If the appeal is national savings for a state-owned merchant marine or inland transport system or medical service, I would turn it down. I believe that nationalization is a fatal...
...Ottawa, Justice Minister Louis Stephen St. Laurent set Oct. 11 and Oct. 15 as hearing days, appointed a com mittee of three Liberals (himself, Mines and Resources Minister James A. Glen, Solicitor General Joseph Jean) to hear the oral arguments. From the Federal verdict there would be no appeal...
...Memphis Belle," a slightly fictionized account of the experiences of a bomber and its crew, may be used as an example of the "boy around the corner" sort of documentary. On an even more fictionized plane, and with a perhaps greater subjective appeal, take a look at Noel Coward's "In Which We Serve" and its khaki successor, David Nivens' "The Way Ahead...
Without much hope of success, defense counsel said they would appeal to a higher court, and, if necessary, to the House of Lords. William Joyce was whisked away to await the noose at the famous Hammersmith prison, Wormwood Scrubs...
...might soon have had to set a price to get them off its hands. If it had, it would have laid itself wide-open to undercutting by all the other automakers. Now it could keep its plants closed while the rest caught up. It was a strategy which might appeal to the entire auto industry. If pressed hard enough, might not the automakers shut down until the new war between labor and management is settled? But could the U.S., which needed the jobs new car production would make, afford that...