Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commission goes against us," said Mayor Moore, who is also the city magistrate, "we'll appeal. We'll get an injunction. We'll get everyone in Electra down to the station blowing whistles. We'll get a cowboy singer and have him give them an adenoid solo. We'll put up stoplights at the railroad crossings and make the trains obey them-if they break the law I'll fine...
...future was that most of the area with which she needs to trade was either held or threatened by the Communists. The Communists saw the dilemma. Japan's Communist boss, plump little Sanzo Nozaka, good friend of China's Mao Tsetung, found that Marxism has little ideological appeal for his countrymen; but when he promised them more food, more work, more trade, he found that even Japanese businessmen would listen. Last week, viewing Mao Tsetung's victories in China, Comrade Nozaka was the cheeriest fellow in all Japan. Asked what effect recent political events in China were...
Congressional reaction to the Brannan plan indicates that it will probably not be adopted in this session and certainly will not be adopted without extensive modifications. The Administration looks for great political appeal in the plan--to the farmers with high support prices, and to labor with low market prices. Although at present the plan is largely the result of campaign promises, it contains some interesting possibilities for a long range agricultural plan...
...Rector William Howard Melish, 38, on the staff of Brooklyn Heights's red stone Church of the Holy Trinity. Young Melish's busy left-wing activities (e.g., he was chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship) had finally led Holy Trinity's vestrymen to appeal to the Bishop of Long Island for the ouster of their rector. After the court ruled, many a Holy Trinity parishioner hoped that son William would at last resign so that the bishop could reverse his decision on the well-loved father...
Dean Sperry of the Divinity School closed the conference with an appeal to the delegates to "recapture the true spirit of self sacrifice" that once pervaded social service work. He also urged Harvard volunteers to make true the desires of some of the thousand underprivileged Boston boys who want to come to Harvard...