Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week a U.S. lawyer, hired by their relatives, prepared an appeal to the Immigration Service. He pleaded that it was political persecution to send them back to Poland or Rumania, or back to Cuba to starve. However their case was decided, they would get no help from a strict reading of the U.S.'s muddled immigration laws. There was no direct provision in the statutes for Woloski or the Hersjus and thousands like them...
...clothing will go to the Student Council-sponsored Rest Center at Salzburg, Austria, which late last month sent out an urgent appeal for wearing apparel of all kinds...
...appeal received by drive chairman Anthony Oettinger '51, the Rest Center's director Kingsley Ervin, Jr. '45, said, "The young women students here work miraculous transformations with old and ragged things. I cannot overemphasize that anything is useful, but the greatest need is for shoes, overcoats, scarves, sweaters, trousers, and women's dresses...
...could legally be abridged; the broadcasts, he said, had "an effect that members of a jury panel would be bound to carry into a jury room." The stations and a commentator were convicted and fined from $100 to $500. Rule 904 would stand, at least until the stations could appeal to a higher court...
...Christian Century lamented that "the Roman Catholic Church, with its pageantry and color, will have an appeal in television which the Protestant churches lack." The telegenic Catholic Church seemed to have its own problems. In December, worshipers in the New York metropolitan area were warned that watching Mass over TV was not an acceptable substitute for attending Mass in person...