Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the three judges of the U.S. tenth circuit court of appeals at Omaha unanimously turned down Dr. Warren's appeal, ruled that if the U.S. Congress has the power to raise armies-which it does-it also has "power to say who shall serve in them and in what way . . . The constitutional guaranties of personal liberty are not always absolutes . . . [Dr. Warren violated the law] under his asserted philosophy that he had a right to disobey a Federal law which he believed to be detrimental to mankind. A person may not decide to himself whether...
...present another financial report like this next year!" Subordinating his distaste for Labor planning to his fervent support of empire development, Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express had a Churchillian message of cheer to Plummer: "The whole harsh picture is a stimulus to resolution and skill, an appeal to the nation's grit...
...bundled into two Constellations bound for New York the dancers were weighed down with uncertainty. It was costing $50,000 to bring them on their first visit to the U.S.-a place where ballet, while spreading to every nightclub and skating rink, had lost some of its popular appeal and much of its professional standing. The British Council, which would be called on to make up any losses, had bid them godspeed with the air of men watching $50,0000 or more go up in smoke. Cagey Ballet Importer Sol Hurok had cautiously limited the Sadler's Wells tour...
There are between two and three million Americans who could be in college right now if they had the money. So says Earl McGrath, federal Commissioner of Education, in an appeal for a $300,000,000 program of scholarship aid by the U. S. government to worthy students of college...
...doors stayed closed. Many an old-timer resented Schulberg's public airing of a private grievance; some speculated skeptically on how quickly he would have shut the door on such an appeal when he was on the inside. But at week's end, Showman Schulberg reported a nibble. Some eastern bankers, he said, had approached him with an idea of forming a whole new company. But "I can't give out any more details until it jells...