Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also on the Fund drive card planned by the outgoing Council last night, is a section, "Charities of national, international, and local appeal," which includes the usual public charities...
...year, Bradley's status remained the same. Then in June, 1948, the Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of Bradley's committee. On June 23, it was announced that Bradley had been suspended indefinitely from his teaching activities...
Akeley didn't like such allusions. In a letter to the Trustees' chairman, he said that the attack on him was "an appeal to curiosity, to prurience, to fears of involvement . . . not in your constitution, nor in Christianity, nor in ethics...
Artist Grandma Moses, 88, who rarely strays far from Eagle Bridge, N.Y. for subject matter for her famed primitives, was unimpressed with New York City. "It's nice to be here," she admitted cautiously, "but the city don't appeal to me." "As picture material?" somebody asked. "As any material," she replied, firmly. Then she took the train down to Washington, where she got the Women's National Press Club annual award for art, and the even more impressive compliment of unwavering attention from President...
Rabbi Herzog is not sightseeing in the U.S. Averaging about four hours' sleep a night, he is visiting 20 cities in 25 days, making two or three speeches each day, to raise money through United Jewish Appeal for the state of Israel. To Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jews, whom he sees in nearly equal numbers, he says the same thing: it is the responsibility of U.S. Jews to give Israel material aid, in return for which they will get spiritual food. "In Israel," he says, "we have the responsibility of sustaining the spiritual lives of Jews all over...